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New Brief Examines Potential Changes to Medicaid Long-Term Care
“Spousal Impoverishment” Rules
A new brief from KFF (the Kaiser Family Foundation)
examines potential changes to “spousal impoverishment” rules in Medicaid
that allow married couples to protect a portion of their income and assets
should one spouse seek Medicaid coverage for long-term care. A provision of
the Affordable Care Act that requires state Medicaid programs to apply such
rules to home- and community-based long-term care is set to expire on
December 31. That could tip the balance of financial incentives toward
institutional care, to which the rules would still apply, and affect the
efforts that states have made (through waivers) to expand access to home- and
community-based services, the brief explains. Congress may consider
legislation to extend the ACA provision in the next few weeks.
Filling
the need for trusted information on national health issues, the Kaiser Family Foundation is a nonprofit
organization based in San Francisco, California.
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
New Brief Examines Potential Changes to Medicaid Long-Term Care “Spousal Impoverishment” Rules
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