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Maintaining Community Medicaid Budgeting and SSI Benefits During Temporary Nursing Home Stays
Many Medicaid recipients are admitted to nursing homes but plan to return to their homes in their community. Financially, it is important for them to maintain community Medicaid budgeting so that they can continue to pay rent, utility, and other living expenses to preserve their apartment or home...
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Transfer of Asset Rules in Medicaid -- The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA, enacted in 2006, made major changes to the transfer penalty rules for eligibility for Medicaid to pay for nursing home care. At the time, and until now, nursing home care was the only Medicaid service that had a lookback and transfer penalty.See GIS 06...
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Special Income Standard for Housing Expenses: If Discharged from Nursing Homes or Adult Homes & Enroll in or Remain Enrolled in MLTC Plan
A huge barrier to people returning to the community from nursing homes is the high cost of housing. One way New York State is trying to address that barrier is with the Special Housing Disregard that allows certain members of Managed Long Term Care or FIDA plans to keep more of their income to pay...
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Medicaid Short-Term Rehabilitation Benefit
As you may know, there are three different levels of Medicaid coverage in New York State, each with different resource documentation requirements. These can be summarized as follows (see this more detailed chart): Level of Coverage: Community Coverage Without Long-Term Care Community...
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MLTC Members in Nursing Homes for 3+ Months Being Disenrolled from MLTC Plans - Since August 2020
Starting in August 2020, MLTC members are disenrolled from their plans after a "Long Term Nursing Home Stay" - defined as 3 months in a nursing home and Institutional Medicaid was approved. In December 2019, CMS approved the request by NYS Dept. of Health to "carve out" long-term Nursing Home...
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Nursing Home Medicaid Coverage - Basic Financial Eligibility Rules about Income, Resources, and Spousal Protections
Medicaid rules are different for people living in the "community" than people living in institutions. For this article, the word "institution" means nursing home care. If you live in your home, someone else's home, or an Assisted Living Program, you are considered to live in the "community." ...
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