People often visit us and ask about using a trust to protect assets in the event they go to a nursing home. They are asking about trusts that don’t count toward Medicaid eligibility and protect their assets. Although the name at the top of the document is unimportant, these are frequently referred to as Medicaid […]
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On September 17, 2023, David L. McGuffey recorded a video for ezelderlaw.com regarding Financial Eligibility for Georgia Medicaid in 2023. Mr. McGuffey anticipates updating the video for 2024. If you’re interested in see the video, you can view it HERE.
The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) recently updated its Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker. The tracker was originally published on May 3 and is updated regularly as new data becomes available. As of July 28, 2023, at least 3,816,000 individuals have been kicked off of Medicaid. This amounts to a shocking 38% of people who have […]
If you think Medicaid is confusing, you have some good company. A number of federal judges have arrived at the same conclusion. The following quote appears in Cherry v. Magnant, 832 F. Supp. 1271 (S.D. Ind. 1993): The federal and state Medicaid statutes have been described as the regulatory equivalent of the “Serbonian bog.” See John […]
In hindsight, people might have acted differently. That could be the case with the participants litigating Colonial Park Care Center, LLC v. Dep’t of Public Works, 2015 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 406 (July 21, 2015). In March, 2012, John Matjasic was admitted to Colonial Park, a nursing home. John was 77 years old at the time. […]
