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At NJ NAELA’s Unprogram on April 10, 2019 in Morristown, New Jersey, Lauren S. Marinaro presented and facilitated a member discussion group on the Affordable Care Act, Expansion Medicaid eligibility and Medicare.  The discussion focused on the eligibility differences between being on Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and being on Aged, Blind, and Disabled Medicaid, as well as how...

New Jersey NAELA has been advocating in support of A4569, which provides for an improved, more accountable, more uniform system for eligibility determination for Medicaid.  On March 11th, 2019, Lauren S. Marinaro, Chapter President of New Jersey NAELA and a partner at Fink Rosner Ershow-Levenberg LLC, testified before the Assembly Human Services Committee in Trenton in support of this...

Lauren Marinaro will present at an upcoming National Business Institute live seminar: Protecting Assets While Qualifying for Medicaid Date: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Time: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Location: Molly Pitcher Inn 88 Riverside Ave Red Bank, NJ 07701 For more information or to register, please visit: http://www.nbi-sems.com/Details.aspx/R-76376ER%7C?ctname=SPKEM

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Did you know that there is a way for low-income community spouses of Medicaid applicants to hold onto extra assets? We have had the opportunity in an array of cases over the years to obtain greater protection for such spouses. Ordinarily, the combined available marital assets must be “spent down” to a certain level before an application for Medicaid can be filed to pay for the...

E. R. vs DMAHS and Department of Health and Senior Services OAL docket no. HMARP 09910-09, Final Agency Decision dated April 12, 2010. In this case, attorney Lauren S. Marinaro secured a  Post-Eligibility Medical Expense Income Deduction (PEME) for her client per 42 USC 1396a(r)(1)(A) to pay off the Medicaid recipient’s outstanding pre-eligibility assisted living health care...

P.K. vs Union County Board of Social Services and DMAHS OAL docket no. HMA7069-09N, Final Agency Decision issued March 4, 2010 Immediate, nonassignable, irrevocable IRA annuity, purchased by the community spouse during the spend-down period, naming the State of New Jersey as the 1st remainder beneficiary to the extent of Medicaid benefits paid for the institutionalized spouse, is not an...

Duffy vs Velez, (U.S. District Court) Case no. 3:09-cv-05539-AET-LHG. This was an  action filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act (the A.D.A.), (Westlaw citation is Duffy v. Velez, 2010 WL 503037, (D.N.J.,2010)) seeking an accommodation for the plaintiff, specifically,  waiver of the income cap in the Global Options Medicaid Program so that Mr. Duffy could reside in assisted living...

Estate of M.M. vs Division of Medical Assistance & Health Services & Union County Board of Social Services, OAL docket no. HMA 13911-08 Final Agency Decision May 2009 adopting the ALJ Initial Decision, reverses County Board’s action that penalized pre-eligibility transfers of assets and that denied eligibility on the basis that the Medicaid applicant wasn’t a resident of New Jersey at...