Save your Selfies for the Medicaid 5-Year LookBack
Readers of this blog know that when he time comes to apply for New Jersey’s Medicaid/MLTSS program for either home care, assisted living care of nursing home care, a daunting array of proofs is required. The burden to prove eligibility is placed on the applicant. Every single expenditure made by the applicant and their spouse during the previous 5 years is open for scrutiny, to see if...
Persistance paid off for Eligible Medicaid Applicant
Here is a recent case that is interesting because of its detailed description of the prolonged delay in the processing of an application for MLTSS Medicaid benefits, which was followed by the agency’s failure to really look at the information submitted and an abrupt denial of benefits that could have caused horrendous consequences. The Appellate Division reversed, in a decision that is...