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 ...

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 ...

For those who don't qualify for long-term care insurance or can't afford it, the Medicaid Asset Protection Trust ("MAPT") can protect your assets from the high cost of long-term care in your home or ...

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 ...

Planning for long-term care is a crucial but often overlooked part of estate planning. Determining who will care for you and how that care will be paid for can be an uncomfortable conversation, yet it ...

Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, so an attorney wrote a guide to help patients apply for the programs that are right for them.

Health insurers — including Tampa, Fla.-based WellCare Health Plans and St. Louis-based Centene — made offers on the Medicare Advantage assets Aetna will divest to help tilt regulatory approval of its ...

My husband of 20 years is elderly and has dementia. While I am trying to keep him at home as long as possible, it is almost inevitable that he will end up in an assisted-living or memory-care facility ...

Stacy Francis is the President and CEO of Francis Financial & founder of Savvy Ladies™, empowering women to achieve financial independence. When my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer that had ...