If your appeal isn't successful, your mother will be considered a private pay patient. While she will not have her benefits ...

Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that provides health coverage to low-income individuals, including children, pregnant women, people with disabilities and seniors. For seniors, it helps ...

Question: My mom suddenly needs to be in a nursing home. Should I spend down her assets so she qualifies for Medicaid? Answer: If you’re in a situation where your mother needs nursing home care, you ...

Medicaid's future is so murky that it's doomed even without direct cuts to senior care The doom scenarios for Medicaid are bleak, and it doesn't take much imagination to get to them - even without ...

Holly Lewis has already seen what happens when a nursing home has staffing troubles. Five years ago, as the COVID pandemic raged, Lewis watched institutional knowledge disappear from her mother’s ...