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# The Shea Law Firm: Medicaid Nursing Home Asset Protection and Eligibility attorney for The Woodlands, Houston, and all of Texas.

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- [Avoid The Medicaid Spend Down in Texas: How Henry Protected $681K in Savings](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/avoid-the-medicaid-spend-down-retirement/): Henry never imagined his life would be turned upside down when his wife suddenly needed long-term nursing home care—costing more than $7,000 each month. Like many families, he feared their was no way to avoid the Medicaid spend down at the last minute. They had $681,744.94 of their life savings now at risk to endless enormous care costs. Henry felt hopeless.
- [How to Pay for a Texas Nursing Home with Social Security in 2024](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/nursing-home-social-security/): As your spouse or parent gets older, they may need to move into a nursing home in order to receive the care they need. Nursing home care can be expensive, and it's important to know how you can pay for it. In many cases, you can get nursing home care for less than their social security income. The way to do that is to successfully navigate the Medicaid process. Once your parent is approved for Medicaid, their cost of care will be no more than their income, and in many cases much lower for married couples.
- [Nursing Home Staff Must Report Abuse and Neglect or ?](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-nursing-home/report-abuse-neglect-rule/): I don't think it is a secret that there are two huge problems in nursing homes. The first problem is abuse against nursing home residents. The second problem is neglect of nursing home residents. Nursing home staff and volunteers fail to report these crimes too often. The government has noticed. It is attempting to increase reporting by expanding its ability to fine not reporting the crime.
- [The Medicaid Nursing Homes in Houston List](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-nursing-home/medicaid-nursing-homes-houston/): When you're looking for a Medicaid nursing home in Houston you have options. That is something lacking from neighboring towns we've looked at. To begin, click on the link below. It will take you to an updated list of the facilities that do accept Texas Medicaid. This list is not an endorsement of any single facility, in fact some of them have some serious issues.
- [How We Got a Client Nursing Home Care for $81 a Month (with proof)](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/affordable-nursing-home-cost/): What do you do when the unthinkable happens and your spouse needs nursing home care? Do you just stand by, do nothing, and watch your life savings disappear at the rate of $5,000 or more every month?
- [The 2018 Nursing Home Medicaid Income and Asset Limits](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/2018-nursing-home-medicaid-income-asset-limits/): Welcome back to the 2018 edition of TexasTitle19.com. It is that time of year again. January 1st is when the government changes certain numbers that determine eligibility for Texas nursing home and long term care Medicaid benefits. If you are looking for long term care Medicaid, then you better know the current numbers. Any mistake can cost you a lot of money.
- [Is a Nursing Home Account Balance Jeopardizing Your Medicaid Eligibility?](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/nursing-home-account/): A lot of people make the mistake of thinking Medicaid is a once and done process. They think once the HHSC approves Medicaid the first time that their parent can't lose benefits. This is far from the truth and also an expensive lesson to learn the hard way.
- [Parent In Nursing Home Avoids $120,000 Medicaid Spend-Down](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/parent-avoid-medicaid-spend-down/): Have people been telling you that protecting assets after entering a nursing home is a pipe dream? Are they saying there is no way you can avoid a spend-down? Should you just give up? Well, let me tell you the story of a case I won recently and then you can make up your own mind.
- [This Person’s Bad Idea Got Her a 3 Year Medicaid Eligibility Penalty](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/homestead-transfer-medicaid-penalty/): When your parent wants to protect their home from nursing home bills, they’re not alone. The good news is in many cases we can achieve this goal.
- [We Can Now Protect More Assets From Nursing Homes in 2017](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/medicaid-penalty-rate-2017/): It's just about football season so let's talk about penalties. Unfortunately, the beginning of football season coincides with when the HHSC completes their review of nursing home costs in Texas. The results of that review dictate the length of Medicaid penalties for everyone in Texas.
- [What A Nursing Home Can Help Your Parent With](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-nursing-home/benefits-nursing-home/): The decision to place a parent in a nursing home is never easy. Most people would prefer to stay at home, and rightfully so. But when staying at home is no longer an option, a nursing home does provide some benefits. A good Montgomery County nursing home can help with the following.
- [This Happens When You Withdraw a Parent’s Account Before Medicaid](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/parent-account-withdraw-medicaid/): A nursing home placement is often a medical crisis. Most of the time you're not expecting it. It comes with a whole slew of issues that you probably never had to deal with before. When you find out what nursing homes cost it becomes a financial crisis as well. People panic. It happens, I see it all the time.
- [How This Couple Got Nursing Home Medicaid & Kept $71,000](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/married-protect-assets-nursing-home/): Today we are going to look at another success story from one of my clients. They are a very nice couple out in west Texas. A wife entered a nursing home and her husband was concerned. How would he get her the care she needed without going broke?Everyone knows you must lose everything before you get Medicaid, right? Well, At the end of this case we successfully protected over $71,000 plus their home. We also got the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to approve her application for Medicaid benefits and cut their nursing home bill. Pretty amazing, right?How did we do it?
- [How To Protect Your Parent From Elder Abuse Without Breaking The Law](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-nursing-home/houston-elder-abuse-camera-law/): We all saw the horrible story out of Houston this week. Brenda Trahan Floyd, a caregiver from Care.com, was seen beating a 94-year-old woman. And not just any elderly woman, but the woman who was paying her to take care of her. Absolutely unbelievable. Unfortunately, this scene plays out too often. Thankfully in this case the family obtained proof of the abuse through a camera. So how can you protect your parent from elder abuse without breaking the law? What are you allowed to do in a Houston nursing home to protect them?
- [How You Can Use The New Nursing Home Medicaid Pending Rules in Houston](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-nursing-home/new-medicaid-pending/): Medicaid pending changes what a nursing home can and cannot do to a resident.
- [Don’t Let This Nursing Home Medicaid Mistake Cost You $8,000!](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/hhsc-medicaid-mistake-cost/): Any Medicaid mistake is expensive when you apply for nursing home benefits. This includes errors you don't even make, but other people make that you don't fix. All it takes is one problem to cost you thousands of dollars in nursing home benefits. If the mistake lasts more than one month, then the costs can multiply to over $10,000 very easily.
- [Is Medicaid Assisted Living A Real Option In Houston Texas?](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-nursing-home/medicaid-assisted-living/): If your parent needs assisted living then you are probably looking at how to pay for it. You know how expensive it is right? A lot of people think of Medicaid assisted living as a silver bullet solution. In reality, in many cases it is not. There is a lot of confusion out there about what Medicaid covers and does not cover. Let's try to clear things up a bit.
- [$99k Asset Protection From Nursing Home Costs in Houston](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/asset-protection-nursing-home-costs/): This post is for you if you are interested in how an unmarried person can achieve asset protection from nursing home costs. In this case I protected over $99,000.
- [Open Q & A For July](https://texastitle19.com/site/open-q-a-for-july/): If you've been looking around here and haven't been able to find what you're looking for then feel free to post your question in the Comment section below this post and I will do my best to answer it. I promise I'm not an outsourced marketing agency that talks in circles, I'm here to help everyone solve real problems.
- [Start Protecting Assets Now?](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/start-protecting-assets/): One of the best steps you can take to help your parent achieve their nursing home Medicaid asset protection goals is to start protecting assets early. The reason is simple. Once you let another month go by without creating Medicaid eligibility you create another month’s worth of nursing home bills. That extra month’s bill is going to decrease the assets available for me to protect. Once it is gone, it is gone.
- [Are You Gambling With Your Medicaid Application?](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/medicaid-application-staff-mistake/): Are you a gambling man or woman? You may not realize it, but when you jump into planning for nursing home Medicaid eligibility without having all your ducks in a row you are essentially gambling with anywhere from $3,000 - $10,000 or more. You may as well sit down at the high stakes table and put it all on red. After all, at least you would get some free drinks and you might double your money. If you are thinking of gambling with who prepares the nursing home Medicaid application, files it (on time), and walks you through the process step by step in order to win your case then keep reading so you at least have your eyes open when you are rolling the dice.
- [Make Nursing Home Medicaid Easier – When To Apply](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/medicaid-easier-apply/): When do you apply for nursing home Medicaid?
- [These Assets Also Count Against You](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/medicaid-assets-count/): When it comes to Texas nursing home Medicaid eligibility it is critical that you have 1000% accurate information. Yes I said 1000% there because that is how important this is for you to help your parent or spouse. Many of the Medicaid eligibility rules are very strict in how the HHSC applies them and leave no room for mistakes. It may be hard to imagine, but being over the eligibility asset limit by any amount (even $100 or less) can result in losing eligibility and benefits worth thousands of dollars! That doesn't sound like a good trade to me. You are either 100% eligible or you are 100% not eligible, there is no middle ground. So, here is a list of assets that people sometimes forget about when it comes to Medicaid asset eligibility:
- [How You Can Stop the Next Nursing Home Bill](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/nursing-home-bill-texas/): You have the power to put an end to your parent's nursing home bills before they lose their life savings. Find out how you can help them and give you peace of mind.
- [Annuities, CDs, and Nursing Home Medicaid](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/annuities-cds-medicaid/): All of the assets a Medicaid applicant and their spouse own come in to the Texas nursing home Medicaid eligibility process. What will happen and what can happen to those assets depends on some specific calculations and the facts involved in your case. However, one rule of thumb I recommend people keep in mind when facing a nursing home placement possibility in the next five years is to preserve flexibility. Flexibility can be an issue with assets like annuities.
- [Make Medicaid Easier – Prohibited Payments](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/medicaid-compensation/): Today we have another entry in my Making Medicaid Easier series. I write these for a couple reasons. First, I want to give you some practical tips. I also want to point out some common landmines to avoid. Next, we look at expenses because paying some expenses can actually create a eligibility penalty.
- [A Medicaid Penalty is Presumed Against You for Certain Transactions](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/medicaid-penalty-presumed/): A lot of people get confused about Medicaid penalties. How does the HHSC discover transactions that might create penalties and how do they determine if there is a Medicaid nursing home penalty? Today I am going to go through a sample Medicaid nursing home penalty scenario so you can get a better idea of how things work and what you might run into in your case. This is just an example for discussion purposes, you should speak with your Woodlands Medicaid Attorney before undertaking any financial transaction when you expect a loved one to need Medicaid eligibility within five years.
- [Make Nursing Home Medicaid Easier (Co-Mingling)](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/texas-medicaid-comingle-accounts/): Texas nursing home Medicaid is generally not one of the easiest things you will encounter. However, there are some common mistakes other people make that you can avoid which will make your case a little bit easier and a little bit faster. One common mistake I encounter is how a potential Medicaid applicant's money and income is handled before, during, and after the Medicaid application.
- [Life Insurance Settlement Account Requirements for Nursing Home Medicaid](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/life-insurance-settlement-account/): I previously discussed the Medicaid requirements you have to meet if your goal is to exclude a life insurance settlement contract from the nursing home Medicaid asset test. If you complete that step, the next critical step is that you have to put the proceeds from the life settlement contract into the right kind of account.
- [Will Nursing Home Medicaid Take My House (Or Bank Account)?](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/lose-house-money-nursing-home/): This is a very common question many people have when a parent or spouse enters a nursing home in Houston, Conroe, or anywhere in Texas. After all, your house, bank account, and other assets represent a lifetime of saving and sacrificing which nobody does with the expectation of losing everything to nursing home bills of over $6,000 a month. The good news is Texas will not take your homestead or other asset, but that does not mean those assets are protected.
- [Why A Spouse Does Not Require an Asset Protection Trust](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/medicaid-spouse-asset-protection-trust/): Why is a Medicaid Asset Protection Attorney telling people to slow down when it comes to a Medicaid Asset Protection Trust for a spouse? The reason is because my goal is to help you protect assets in the most effective and least complicated way the law allows and in many cases that means not using an asset protection trust when one spouse is in a nursing home.
- [My Plan to Protect $85,000 For a Married Couple & Get Them Medicaid](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/protect-assets-medicaid-spouse/): In this case I created Medicaid eligibility and asset protection in 1 month. The end result was over $85k in asset protection and a nursing home bill down to $0!
- [Don’t Surrender the Life Insurance for Medicaid Before Reading This](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/surrender-life-insurance-medicaid/): Life insurance can be a tricky asset in a nursing home Medicaid case. Depending on the specific numbers and details if your case, you may be able to keep it in tact or the cash value of the policy might make it impossible to keep in its current form while qualifying a parent or spouse for nursing home Medicaid. In cases like that most people are faced with surrendering the policy for its cash value. That was generally the last option because you are only going to receive the cash value of the policy and then the cash value was subject to same resource rules as every other asset. Fortunately, there is now a new option that is an improvement over simply surrendering the life insurance policy. That option is called a life insurance settlement.
- [Asset Protection During the Medicaid Lookback Period](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/asset-protection-lookback-period/): Do you remember HAL-9000 from the film 2001? He could be scary. Just like the words “lookback period” strike fear into many families. And perhaps rightfully so once you find out how much a nursing home costs every single day with no end in sight. While we certainly need to respect the lookback period when it comes to nursing home Medicaid, in many cases I can still achieve a client’s asset protection goals even within the lookback period. You have less options during the lookback period, but you still may have some very good options.
- [Your Medicaid Eligibility Asset Inventory](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/medicaid-inventory-assets/): When a parent or spouse goes into a nursing home the first priority should be getting them the best care there. Once their medical care is stabilized, priority number two should be figuring out how to pay for that care. This usually begins with assembling all of the information on assets, income, debts, and expenses for the nursing home resident and his or her spouse. I call this the Inventory stage and it is worth doing whether you intend to pursue nursing home Medicaid or not because you should know what you have to work with when confronted with a huge new monthly bill.
- [Who Is Protecting You?](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/medicaid-nursing-home-protection/): Information, knowledge, experience, and knowing when to take action are some of the most important traits you need to have when you undertake to obtain Medicaid nursing home benefits for someone. If you have wrong information it could cost you a month or more of Medicaid benefits. If you don’t know what to do with the information you have, it could cost you a month or more of Medicaid benefits. If you don’t have the experience to overcome obstacles it could cost you a month or more of Medicaid benefits. And last but not least, if you do not know which deadlines you have to meet for certain items it could cost you a month or more of Medicaid benefits.
- [Would You Spot An HHSC Mistake?](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/nursing-home-medicaid-mistake/): Our pal Homer is back to talk about more mistakes and Medicaid. Mistakes are a very big deal in Medicaid because they can cost you a lot of money and my goal is to save you a lot of money. And one of the challenges of mistakes from the HHSC is being able to identify their mistake in the first place. After all, if you don't know all of the regulations and policies that apply in your case you might have a hard time knowing if the caseworker applied them correctly.
- [2015 Cost of Care Update](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-nursing-home/2015-texas-nursing-home-cost/): Genworth completed their 2015 survey on the cost of care in Texas. As you might imagine, it keeps getting more expensive every year for nursing homes and assisted living throughout Texas. Here are the results for Houston:
- [Medicaid Miller Trust and Funeral Expenses](https://texastitle19.com/miller-trust/miller-trust-funeral/): Someone recently asked me the following question: Can a Miller Trust be used to pay funeral expenses? In case you were wondering the same thing, let's take a look at the answer.
- [The Cost of a Medicaid Mistake](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/medicaid-nursing-home-mistake/): We took a little detour but this is the conclusion of my previous post on some of the more common Medicaid mistakes I see people without a Woodlands Medicaid attorney make. What is the cost of making one or more mistakes during the nursing home Medicaid eligibility process? Well, the cost to you and your parent or spouse is going to depend on the kind of mistake(s) you make.
- [Do It Yourself And Lose a House?](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-asset-protection/medicaid-lose-house/): How confident would you feel in replacing a washer that is causing a plumbing leak? How confident do you feel that you can change the oil in your car? How confident are you in your ability to protect $140,000 from nursing home bills?
- [How My Miller Trust Saves You Money on Nursing Home Bills](https://texastitle19.com/miller-trust/miller-trust-save-money/): If your spouse is currently in a nursing home or expected to be placed in a nursing home in the near future you might be asking yourself: “why in the world would I create a Miller Trust for my spouse’s income? Isn’t it going to interfere with my ability to use his or her income?” These are common questions and let me demonstrate how my Miller Trust can actually save you a lot of money and therefore might make sense for you.
- [Avoid These Nursing Home Medicaid Mistakes](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/houston-nursing-home-medicaid-mistakes/): What are some common mistakes to avoid during the nursing home Medicaid eligibility process?
- [Medicaid Forms and You](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/medicaid-form/): The Medicaid eligibility process is like a stairway, there are a bunch of steps you have to complete before you get to the top and obtain Medicaid nursing home eligibility. A mistake at any one of the steps can lead to a very bad outcome at the end, kind of like how dominoes fall one after another. Very rarely is it a matter of filling out a form and waiting for an automatic approval. You need to be able to prove that the Medicaid applicant meets all the legal criteria for eligibility. If you can’t prove that your parent or spouse meets every single eligibility criteria, then the HHSC can deny their application and you should be prepared for that outcome.
- [Oil and Gas Royalties and Nursing Home Medicaid Eligibility](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/oil-gas-royalty-medicaid/): Your parent or spouse may receive oil and gas royalties from mineral rights. Many Texas families do. Eventually your parent or spouse may find themselves in a nursing home. Unless they can afford $5,000 or more every month, they will need to qualify for nursing home Medicaid benefits. If your loved one receives oil and gas royalties and needs to qualify for nursing home Medicaid then you need to know how the HHSC is going to treat those royalties before you make a costly mistake.
- [2015 Medicaid Asset Changes](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/2015-houston-medicaid-resources/): Today we pick up where we left off in last week’s article discussing the 2015 Texas nursing home Medicaid changes. For 2015 there were small increases in the substantial home equity limit, the minimum Community Spousal Protected Amount, and the maximum Community Spousal Protected Amount. The resource limit for the Medicaid applicant remained the same.
- [2015 Medicaid Income Changes](https://texastitle19.com/medicaid-eligibility/2015-houston-medicaid-income/): Welcome back to the 2015 edition of TexasTitle19.com. It is that time of year again. January 1st is when certain numbers used to determine eligibility for Texas nursing home and long term care Medicaid benefits change. If you are looking for Medicaid eligibility you better know the current numbers or it could cost you a lot of money. There is one set of numbers that impact a Medicaid applicant’s (or their spouse’s) income and a different set of numbers that impact the Medicaid applicant’s (or their spouse’s) assets. In this article we are going to look at the changes that deal with income issues with Texas nursing home Medicaid. Next time we are going to look at the changes and limits that deal with assets and eligibility in 2015.

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