Applying for Medicaid benefits, particularly long-term care benefits, can be difficult and confusing. Yet, it is a necessary evil for many who rely on Medicaid to ensure that they can afford the room, ...

When a loved one is in a nursing home or another similar long-term or skilled nursing facility, the expenses add up. At some point, the expenses often exceed the available resources that the loved one ...

For skilled nursing facility residents applying for long-term care Medicaid benefits, under federal regulation, all state agencies are required to issue an eligibility determination on the application ...

With new federal rules about to shorten the window for retroactive Medicaid payments, lawmakers are reimagining ways to fast-track approval and provide more coverage for nursing homes exposed to ...

As new administrative hurdles take hold, Medicaid-Marketplace coordination that enables a single application and seamless low-burden transitions between programs will be critical to maintaining ...

A bipartisan group of Ohio legislators wants to change the state’s Medicaid program in a way they say could save hundreds of millions of dollars each year. The plan, called Medicaid Savings Act, would ...