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We received a call some weeks ago from a caller named John, whose mother was in a nursing facility.  He had attempted several times to qualify her for Medicaid.  Each attempt was unsuccessful.  After the last unsuccessful attempt he took his mother home to “regroup”.  John called our office when he received a summons

In this week’s post, I continue to discuss a common fact pattern we see in our office.  The case involves someone who needs long term care, doesn’t have enough to pay for it but does have a house.  As I explained last week, the available government benefit programs don’t always cover the

In my post last week I explained that once a Medicaid application is approved, everything isn’t on autopilot.  What I mean is that you must be vigilant so as not to lose the benefits once you have them. That can happen a number of ways such as a change in circumstance. 

Whenever I talk to families about how to get Medicaid approved, there are so many elements to a successful application and so many confusing requirements that the tendency is to relax a bit, thinking the job is done when we first get the application approved. One example is with respect to