Medicaid Planning Strategies

Critics of current laws that allow older Americans to transfer assets and still qualify for Medicaid coverage of long-term care often claim that the wealthy are benefiting from these laws. Millionaires, so the story goes, are intentionally impoverishing themselves...

More Americans are turning to 'ethical wills' as a way of passing on their hopes and values to succeeding generations.

The fairness of current laws that allow older Americans to keep or transfer certain assets and still qualify for Medicaid coverage of long-term care was debated in the July 7 issue of USA Today. In an editorial, USA Today claims...

The Bush administration has allowed states to make sweeping changes in the way care is delivered to elderly and disabled Medicaid recipients but has failed to monitor the quality of that care, according to a Congressional investigative report.

Moving to a nursing home can bring up many emotions that are hard to cope with, such as feelings of abandonment, loss, disorientation and frustration. It''s little wonder that more than half of nursing home residents suffer from depression,...

The $318 billion tax cut package recently approved by Congress includes $10 billion in Medicaid aid to fiscally strapped states. More . . .

Consumers in eight states are now able to compare'“for the first time--the quality of care provided by home health care agencies in their state. More . . .

An ElderLawAnswers law firm has won an important legal victory in preventing an Indiana nursing home from forcing a 98-year-old Medicaid resident to move to a part of the facility set aside for patients whose care is funded by Medicaid.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that Medicare beneficiaries will now be able to receive coverage of positron emission tomography (PET) to diagnose thyroid cancer and potential cardiac diseases. At the same time, CMS will...