An article in the New York Times this morning explains what happens if your mother, who has $100,000, goes into a nursing home. If she lives two years or more, she will run out of money and will need Medicaid to stay in a nursing home. Cuts to Medicaid will...
I’ve written on this topic before, but the situation can be so serious for those that are affected, I wanted to discuss it again. On July 1, 2012, the Tennessee Bureau of TennCare (Tennessee’s version of Medicaid) adopted new guidelines to determine who...
Medicaid (known as TennCare in Tennessee) is a federal-state partnership program that pays for about half of long term care costs in America (excluding the costs of in-home care provided by families). Federal law sets out the limitations on assets that determine...
