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       A Special Touch Home Care Services,  AccentCare of NY,  Access: Support for Living,  AccessCNY, Inc.,  AHS Eldercare,  AIM Independent Living Center,  Angels in Your Home,  ARISE, Inc.,  BestCare, Inc.,  Burd Home Health LLC.,  Center for Disability Rights,  Chinese American Planning Council,  Committed Home Care, Inc.,  Community Care Companions, Inc.,  Community Home Health… Read more »

CDPAP also known as Consumer Direct Personal Assistance Program is alive and well; however, some changes have been implemented. Beginning April 1, 2025 families requesting CDPAP, Consumer Direct Personal Assistance Program, where the applicants were able to hire family members, will change. 1) Applicants will have to sign up with Facilitators (Independent Living Centers);2) Applicants… Read more »

Savings your assets and apply for Medicaid medical assistance. When a family or loved one hears your spouse/parent/partner are in need of nursing home care, they immediately panic and fear all of their assets are going to be needed to support the ill person’s nursing home bill.  Most people do not have a clue about… Read more »

Community Medicaid Look-Back Period Presently an applicant is allowed to transfer any amount of assets one month and become financially eligible for Community Medicaid the following month.  However, according to NYS Department of Health the implementation of the rule passed October 2020, a 30 months look-back period, will be in effect sometime in 2025. What… Read more »

Medicaid allows an applicant of both Community Medicaid and Nursing Home Medicaid applications to retain their primary residence up to the amount of $1,071.000; however, many make the mistake thinking it becomes the property of the beneficiaries on the applicant’s Will. Things to consider when filling. Although Medicaid allows the applicant to keep their primary… Read more »

In New York State there are two types of nursing home Medicaid applications. One for a married person and the other for a single person. When applying for a married person (ill spouse), we can save all of the resources, and some or all of the income depending on the (healthy spouse’s), income. The more… Read more »

April 2024 has arrived and the rule regarding two and one-half (2.5) years of look-back has not been implicated. Many potential applicants were worried that starting April 1, 2024 Medicaid will implement the 2020 rule of 2.5 years look-back period. That means applicants applying for Community Medicaid, which allows them to apply for home-care services,… Read more »

Financial Levels for Medicaid eligibility. Every January NYS provides the yearly income and resource levels allowed for Community and Nursing Home Medicaid applicants. Please see our Medicaid Rate Page for all the updated numbers.  Considering they are not all distributed at the same time, we can only update as they are offered to the public…. Read more »

Why are you spending your hard earned money on private home care services? when you could easily apply for Medicaid medical assistance and receive the same services for free. Presently and until Medicaid enforces the new rule passed in 2020, applicants are able to transfer their excess resources one month and become financially eligible for… Read more »

On July 1, 2023 NYS Public Health Emergency had been lifted.  What does this mean to present Medicaid recipients and applicants? During Covid (January 2020 to July 1, 2023), Medicaid was not allowed to remove any recipient from the program.  On a yearly basis Medicaid requires everyone to recertify their Medicaid; however, during the Public… Read more »