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In order to establish nursing home Medicaid eligibility the applicant must have “medical necessity” to be in a nursing home. If you do not have a valid medical necessity then you will not be eligible for Medicaid. What is “medical necessity?” A Medical necessity exists when a person meets all of the following criteria: (1)…
Before spending all of their assets many families that work with an experienced Medicaid Attorney purchase a funeral contract for the Texas Medicaid recipient. The reason is simple, once the family member is on Medicaid they will never be allowed to have more than $2,000 in assets. Funerals generally cost a lot more than $2,000…
What happens to income after you receive it? As we have covered in other articles Texas Medicaid has very specific rules for the treatment of income and the treatment of assets. Therefore, it is critical your Houston Medicaid Attorney understands when property is labeled as income and when it is labeled as a resource. The…
This post was written for Medicaid eligibility in 2010. For current Medicaid Eligibility information, visit: https://texastitle19.com/texas-nursing-home-medicaid-eligibility/ Certain numbers used to determine eligibility for Texas Medicaid benefits are subject to change every January 1st. This year there were not many changes. Unfortunately the minimum and maximum Community Spousal Protected Resource Amounts remained the same. The current figures…
Retirement accounts can cause a lot of confusion when planning for Texas Medicaid eligibility. This is in large part due to the many different kinds of retirement accounts out there. Today we are going to look at one very common kind of retirement account, the individual retirement account, or IRA. This includes the traditional IRA…