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If a person is denied Medicaid coverage, the first step is to determine the reason for the denial and the length of time granted to cure the error.  At QMC, applications are not submitted until all application requirements have been met, avoiding the stress of dealing with a denial. When a person enters long-term care […]

Medicaid denials are unwanted but can occasionally happen: in most cases, providing more complete information, or quickly curing the problem, can result in no loss of coverage for the Medicaid applicant. When a loved one enters long-term care in a nursing home, if they insufficient assets to pay for the full term of their long-term […]

Nursing homes have a legal obligation to inform a married couple of their opportunity to preserve assets for the community spouse by pursuing the completion of a Division of Assets. Legal Responsibilities of Nursing Homes regarding Divisions of Assets Nursing homes have a legal obligation to inform all married residents and their families of their […]

Under a Division of Assets (or Assessment of Assets), a portion of the assets held by a married couple will be assigned to the healthy spouse to live on and will be considered exempt for Medicaid purposes. The following briefly describes the steps to determine resource eligibility for an institutionalized married individual based on a […]

When determining Medicaid eligibility for long-term care recipients who are entitled to an inheritance, the interest of the recipient in property of any kind will be not be considered until the asset is fully available to them. If the claimant has property, which was willed to him or to his spouse, the exact terms of […]

Joint property, owned by the Medicaid applicant and another person, can be divided, with only the percentage owned by the applicant counting as a countable asset. When property is owned by two or more persons, other than husband and wife, or by a divorced couple, it is most often called ‘tenancy in common’.  Each person […]