Medicaid Figures for 2009

Note:  I am posting the new Medicaid figures for 2009.  The most significant changes are in the individual resource allowance (now $13,800) and in the community spouse's MMMNA (now $2,739). 

Chronic Care Medicaid

Minimum Community Spouse Resource Allowance:  $74,820

Maximum Community Spouse Resource Allowance:  $109,560

Resource Allowance for Individual:  $13,800

Community Spouse Minimum Monthly Maintenance Needs Allowance(MMMNA):  $2,739

Family Member Allowance - Other Eligible Persons - Spousal Impoverishment Situations:  $584

Community Medicaid and SSI-Related Medicaid

Medicaid Only - Monthly - One Person

SSI Income Standards - Medicaid Standard:  $761

SSI Resource Standards - Individual:  $2,000

-Authored by Elizabeth Randisi, a Rochester, New York attorney associated with the law firm WeinsteinMurphy.  Her practice focuses on Trusts and Estates and elder law.

Comments

[Benjamin Wolf]

Here's my post on one main change in Medicaid law, due to the Federal Government's re-interpretation of how New York has been applying the rules for married couples where one spouse is in need of nursing home or home care: http://schlissellaw.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/only-5-weeks-left-for-married-couple-home-care-medicaid-applications/

[Elizabeth Randisi]

Benjamin, thanks for pointing this out. We don't have very many planning or Medicaid clients who are receiving home care - the vast majority of our Medicaid practice deals with clients who are in skilled nursing facilities. Is home care more popular where you are downstate?