“People tend to use the terms interchangeably, but they are not at all the same,” says Josh Hodges, the chief customer officer at the National Council on Aging. Unlike Medicare, which is funded by the ...

Medicare is a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and some people under 65 with certain disabilities or ...

Medicaid’s look-back period is a way to ensure applicants haven’t recently given away or sold assets that could have been used to pay for long-term care. The period applies only to Medicaid for ...

Compare Medicaid and long-term care insurance to determine the best coverage for your needs. Understand key differences in benefits, flexibility, and cost.

Medicaid, like all “means-tested” programs where eligibility is based on income and assets, requires extensive documentation to establish eligibility. Proof is required to verify identity, residence, ...

For more than 30 years, Washington has known that Medicaid hemorrhages taxpayer dollars through fraud, waste, and abuse, ...

Paying attention to the documentation required to apply for and sustain Medicaid coverage in New York is more important than ever under President Donald Trump's tax cut and government spending bill.