Long-term care costs like nursing home care can quickly drain retirement savings. Medicare provides little help paying these ...

Whether or not a house is counted as assets under Medicaid coverage depends on a number of factors. For example, if Lillian ...

Dear Mr. Premack: If a marital property agreement exists and finances have not been co-mingled, can the assets of one spouse be considered when the other spouse needs to apply for Medicaid assistance ...

When looking at pending nursing home admissions, people start to think about gifting their assets to their children, which can negatively impact their future Medicaid application. In Ohio, gifting ...

Since Maggie is in her 60s and still working, it’s unlikely she would meet the requirements for undue hardship if the state was to seize her mother’s home. It’s important to note that the state may ...

'I was born in a time when the elderly and disabled were hidden away in back bedrooms and institutions' "As technology advances, I find it more difficult to do things most people take for granted." ...

To qualify for Medicaid, Katie's mom would need to spend down those joint accounts before she can get coverage. If her ...

Poor Americans will face new challenges to enroll, and states will have to build new bureaucracies. Medicaid, the public ...

Millions of Americans who get health insurance through Medicaid will face new hurdles after the House passed President Donald Trump's massive tax cut and spending bill, which includes deep cuts to ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.