Medicaid

2025 Georgia Medicaid Transfer Penalty

2025 Georgia Medicaid Transfer Penalty If an applicant for long-term care Medicaid (e.g., nursing home Medicaid) transfers resources for less…

1 year ago

The ARC Fights to Protect Medicaid

Medicaid is critical for individuals with special needs. It pays for things no one else will pay for and it…

1 year ago

2025 Spousal Impoverishment Standards

On November 15, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services posted the 2025 spousal impoverishment standards. These are the…

1 year ago

Social Security Disability versus Veteran’s Disability

The word disability doesn't have the same meaning in all contexts. If you have a disability insurance policy, you could…

2 years ago

Social Security Announces 2.5 Percent Benefit Increase for 2025

On October 10, 2024, the Social Security Administration announced that Americans will increase a 2.5 percent cost of living increase…

2 years ago

Medicaid’s payment of medical bills does not bar recovery from negligent party

When an injured party sues someone who negligently injured him or her, one form of damages the injured party may…

2 years ago

Promissory Notes

When the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 changed 42 U.S.C. ยง 1396p, new restrictions were imposed on promissory notes. Subsection…

2 years ago

Refusal to Answer Medicaid’s Questions Justified Denial of Eligibility

In Lamle ex rel. Lamle v. Shropshire (W.D. Oklahoma 5/29/2024), a United States District Court upheld a denial of benefits…

2 years ago

How much protection does a Medicaid Asset Protection Trust really provide?

In Hammerberg v. Department of Human Servs. (Minn. Ct. App. 4/22/2024), the State made an estate recovery claim against what…

2 years ago

TennCare’s Medicaid Renewal Process was Illegal and Flawed

The Tennessee Justice Center and its legal partners brought a class action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle…

2 years ago