Many of our clients reach out to us while they’re in a nursing home receiving rehab services, and many of them say to us something like this, “Mom’s being discharged from rehab next week because she has plateaued,” or, “My husband no longer qualifies for…
Category: Nursing Home
Searching for the Right Nursing Home
Once you have reviewed all of the care options in Georgia (see last week’s blog) and have determined that you or your loved one truly needs nursing home care, it can be overwhelming to figure out how to find the right nursing home care.…
Searching for the Right Long Term Care Community
We are just about to publish our 6th Edition of the Metro Atlanta Nursing Home and Assisted Living Guide! For the last 10 years, Hurley Elder Care Law has been providing families and professionals with the #1 go-to printed resource for finding nursing homes…
Expert Tips for Georgia Medicaid: How to Avoid the Medicaid “Death Bill”
The rules for Georgia Nursing Home Medicaid eligibility are confusing. We have tried our best to provide clear, concise information on our website and blog to help families understand their options and rights. One area of Medicaid law that continues to confuse and scare families is…
Expert Tips for Georgia Medicaid: Qualified Income Trusts 101
As we have discussed several times in our blog (here and here), Georgia has an “income cap” that is currently set at $2,250/month for nursing home Medicaid eligibility (as well as the elderly and disabled waiver program). This means that anyone with over $2,250/month of income…
Expert Tips for Georgia Medicaid: Six Tips to Getting into a Nursing Home Without a Hospitalization
Finding a nursing home bed in the Metro Atlanta area can be difficult. In May, we published a blog about this issue that you can read here: https://hurleyeclaw.com/2018/05/09/finding-right-nursing-home-metro-atlanta/ In summary, you can read that many of our nursing homes in Metro Atlanta are accepting residents…
Expert Tips for Georgia Medicaid: Hide Your Assets in a Trust?
“Can’t I just put Mama’s assets in a trust and then apply for Medicaid?” We hear this question maybe weekly. Unfortunately for these families, qualifying for Medicaid is not that easy. Medicaid Asset Limits In Georgia, you cannot own more than $2,000 of countable assets…
Expert Tips for Georgia Medicaid: Getting Medicaid Even When You Have Too Many Assets
To qualify for nursing home Medicaid, applicants must show that they have a limited amount of countable assets. These rules can be very confusing, and most families worry that their loved one cannot qualify for Medicaid. Currently, Georgia residents must have less than $2,000 in…
Expert Tips for Georgia Medicaid: Giving Your Assets to Your Spouse and Understanding the Maximum CSRA [Community Spouse Resource Allowance]
It is true that Medicaid is intended to be health insurance for the very poor. It is also true that Medicaid has become the default long-term care insurance payer for millions of middle class families. In the Metro Atlanta area, nursing home costs can run…
Finding the Right Nursing Home in Metro Atlanta
Most families are shocked when they find out how difficult it can be to find a nursing home bed for their loved one in the Metro Atlanta area—much less a bed in the right nursing home. The Metro Atlanta area has a shortage of long-term…