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“Who Respects the Elderly is as if he Respects the Lord.”
‐Alphabet of Ben Sira
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*Note: Power Point packet is intended for informational purposes only and is not to be construed as legal advice
Medicaid – It’s Complicated
*Note: Power Point packet is intended for informational purposes only and is not to be construed as legal advice.
Keep your eye on the MEDICAID ball!
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Medicaid: 3-Headed Monster
Medicaid
Passport At-Home Medicaid
Assisted LivingWaivers
Nursing HomeMedicaid
Passport Part of the Ohio HCBS Waiver.
Can get up to roughly 40 hours/week in home care.
Family members can train to be caregiver and get paid through Medicaid.
Not ideal for single people.
Limited number of home health providers accept it. (especially in rural areas)
Passport Financial Test (more on that
later)
Medical Test – Nursing Home Ready. Need Help with Two Activities of Daily Living.
Feeding
Dressing
Bathing
Toileting
Continence
Transferring from Bed to Chair
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Assisted Living Waiver
Part of the HCBS Waiver.
Most AL Facilities do not accept Waiver.
AL facilities that do accept waiver often require at least two year private pay stay.
No guarantee you’ll get Medicaid even then.
Medicaid for the Aged (Nursing Home) What most people think
of when they hear “Medicaid”.
It is a myth that Medicaid facilities are the “worst
facilities”
NH may not discriminate against Medicaid
recipients for care.
Crossing the Bridge to Medicaid
You need a must‐have document:
Financial Power of Attorney
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Financial Power of Attorney
•Document that takes effect during your lifetime.
•Designed to allow a chosen agent to step in your place and handle your financial affairs.
•You are giving the keys to your castle!!!!!!
Financial Power of Attorney
Standard Powers Include:
Banking (Including writing checks and cashing in CD’s)
Sell Real Estate
Buy and Sell Stocks
Borrow Money
Power of Attorney
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Financial Power of AttorneyPowers to Look for in Your
Document
Gifting Power: “To make gifts to herself, my spouse or any one of my lineal descendants……”
Power to Establish and Fund a special needs or pooled Medicaid payback trust.
Power to Self‐Deal
Annuity Power
Financial Power of Attorney
MOST FINANCIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY
DOCUMENTS DO NOT HAVE THESE ENHANCED
POWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can be a Hero Advocate!!!
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MEDICAID
INCOME TEST ASSET TEST
MEDICAID‐ IncomeQualified Income Trusts(Miller Trust)• If a Medicaid applicant’s
income exceeds $2349, a QIT must be established.
• Income above the threshold is placed in the trust and then used to pay for care.
• At death, state is paid back.
MEDICAIDAsset Requirement
Single
OHIO
$ 2,000 in assets
House (must eventually sell)
Car (medical transport)
KENTUCKY
$2,000 in assets
House (6 months)
Car (medical transport)Qualified Plans (IRAs, 401K, etc)
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MEDICAID
OH – IO!
$2,000 in Bank
$10,000 IRA
Will be Denied
Go Big Blue!
$2,000 in Bank
$500,000 IRA
Will be Approved!!!!
MEDICAID ‐ Single
What about my income?
o You keep enough to pay for your health insurance premiums.
o You keep $50 spending cash.
o Rest goes to nursing home as part of your “patient liability” {think‐ copay}.
MEDICAID ‐ COUPLE
Couple’s Asset Requirement
One spouse can be on Medicaid & Community Spouse can keep ½ assets up to $128,640
Exemptions
House
Car (Unlimited Value)
Retirement Assets (KY only)
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Snapshot date:
In Ohio, Couple’s resources determined as of the first
day of a period of continuous institutionalization.
(Translation: The 1st
Day of 30 consecutive days in the hospital or nursing
home).
In KY, Snapshot date is day of application of resource
assessment.
Pre Snap‐Shot Planning
Liquidate house prior to snap‐shot date, then establish your
snapshot date and buy a senior‐friendly
home.
MEDICAID ‐ CoupleWhat about spouse’s income?
Formula is used to calculate Community Spouse’s monthly expenses and housing needs.
Usually Community Spouse gets to live on about $2,500 per month. (more if housing costs like taxes and mortgage are high)
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MEDICAID – Real Estate
Rule of Thumb!!
If single and in a facility‐ sell your house asap.
If single or couple, sell off your real estate that is not your primary residence.
MEDICAID Spend Down Options
Single
1. Burial pace
2. Pre‐paid Funeral (Irrevocable)
3. Fix up House
MEDICAID Spend Down Options
Single
1. Burial pace
2. Pre‐paid Funeral (Irrevocable)
3. Fix up House
Couple
1. Burial Space
2. Pre‐paid Funeral (Irrevocable)
3. Buy a new Car for Spouse
4. Fix up or buy new house
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MEDICAID – Couple’s PlanningSpousal Refusal
An option when almost all assets are in healthy spouse’s name.
Healthier Spouse signs form refusing to participate in Sick Spouse’s Care.
State will get paid back in estate recovery.
Prosecutor may send threatening letter demanding payment.
MEDICAID – Couple’s Planning
Medicaid Specific Annuities
Turns a countable asset into a stream of income that can be stretched over spouse’s actuarial life expectancy
MEDICAID: Can I Give My Money Away?
Not without penalty
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MEDICAID: 5 Year Look‐back
Medicaid Giftingo State will impose a penalty period during which time you will not be eligible for Medicaid and you must private pay for your room.
o Ohio uses divisor of $6905.
o Kentucky uses a penalty divisor of $6066.
o Bigger the gift, the longer the penalty
Beware of Comingling Assets!!!!!
Do Not Reimburse Without Keeping Receipts
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Warning: DO NOT PAY YOUR CHILD FOR CAREGIVING WITHOUT A CONTRACT!!!!
TIP: YOU CAN PAY YOUR CHILD FOR
CAREGIVING WITH A CONTRACT!!!!
MEDICAID Caregiver Contracts
Below Market Rate
Specify Duties
Pay Taxes
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MEDICAID Gifting
May still be able to gift a portion of the assets and purchase a Medicaid Specific Annuity to pay off nursing home/ AL bill during the penalty period.
MEDICAID – Gifting
Run the penalty clock off at home – on Passport
MEDICAIDCan I gift anything without a
penalty?
Yes! You can purchase burial spaces for your immediate
family!!!*
*Note: You don’t “give them the contract. You purchase and hold the space for them.
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MEDICAID ‐ What is a Burial Space?
Burial plot, gravesite, crypt, mausoleum, casket, urn, niche.
Includes vaults, headstones, markers, plaques, burial containers (e.g. for caskets) and arrangements for opening and closing of gravesite.
Includes contract for gravesite care and maintenance.
MEDICAID –Gifting Penalty Exemption
Child Two Year Care‐giver Rule
Must be able to prove that child kept parent out of the nursing home for 2 years.
Child must be living in the home of theparet and document care given.
Gift the home
MEDICAID ‐ Gifting Penalty Exemption
Disabled Child
Elder can gift home and assets to disabled child.
Who is a disabled child? A child that is on disability via SSI or SSDI.
Other disability programs will not qualify
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Medicaid – It’s Complicated
Break time!
Power Point packet is intended for informational purposes only and is not to be construed as legal advice.
MEDICAID ‐ Estate Recovery
After Medicaid Recipient passes, State will seek to get reimbursed for care
provided.
May file claim against estate in Probate Court
May file lien on property
May go after beneficiaries
MEDICAID ‐ Estate Recovery
What about couples?
Estate Recovery takes place after second spouse passes away.
State can only go after assets owned by Medicaid recipient at death.
You need FPOA with gifting power to transfer house!
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IS A TRUST ?
MEDICAID ‐ Trusts
TRUST FUND BABIES…. In reality Trusts are NOT exclusively for the wealthy.Can be used in Medicaid Planning – both Crisis and Pre‐Crisis.
MEDICAID‐Trusts (Crisis Planning)Pooled Medicaid Payback
Trust•State will turn a blind eye to assets placed in this type of trust
•After Medicaid Recipient dies, Trust will pay back state for the amounts that the state has paid for his/her care while on Medicaid.
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MEDICAID ‐ Pooled Medicaid Payback Trust: Why do it, if it pays the state back anyway?
1. The pay back is at the state rate which is cheaper than the private pay rate (usually around $2000‐$3000 a month cheaper)
2. Anything left over can be distributed to heirs.
MEDICAID ‐ Pooled Medicaid Payback Trust
Why do it, if it pays the state back anyway?
You can draw funds out of trust to improve quality of
life.
‐Televisions
‐Computers
‐Cell Phones
MEDICAID ‐ Pooled Medicaid Payback Trust
Why do it, if it pays the state back anyway?
You can draw funds out of trust to improve quality of life.
Upgrade to a private room
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MEDICAID Asset Protection Trust (Pre‐Crisis)
Irrevocable Trust
Good for someone 70 years or older or someone with a diagnosis potentially requiring chronic or long term care.
MEDICAID Asset Protection Trust
Place Assets in a Trust
Let them sit for five years
MEDICAID Asset Protection TrustYou must trust your children.
You name an independent “Distribution Trustee who must sign off on any withdrawal of principal Trust assets.
You do this in case you don’t make it the 5 years and you need the money to be there to pay for your care.
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MEDICAID Asset Protection Trust
Idea is to make it beyond the 5 year look‐back and
penalties Medicaid imposes for a transfer of assets.
Advantage: If you make it the 5 years, you have passed a legacy on to your children
while still priming yourself to receive Medicaid.
MEDICAID Asset Protection Trust
Disadvantage: It is a permanent gift. You must give up control of your assets. You can’t get it back unless beneficiaries agree.
MEDICAID –Challenging Cases
Mr. K.
• Age 90
• Car Accident Put him in NH
• Life Insurance cash surrender $25k but with $100k with death benefit
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MEDICAID –Challenging Cases
Mr. K.
• Age 90
• Car Accident Put him in NH
• Life Insurance cash surrender $25k but with $100k with death benefit
• Solution? Have child pay him $25K for life insurance. Establish Pooled Trust.
MEDICAID –Challenging Cases
Mr. and Mrs. M.
• Mrs. M. 85,dementia in N.H. on Medicaid
• Mr. M. 87 in AL private pay
• House owned Jointly, and no FPOA with Gifting Power
MEDICAID –Challenging Cases
Mr. and Mrs. M.
• Mrs. M. 85,dementia in N.H. on Medicaid
• Mr. M. 87 in AL private pay
• House owned Jointly, and no FPOA with Gifting Power
Solution? Go to Court and Establish Guardianship of Estate, and ask for court’s permission to transfer title of home.
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MEDICAID – Challenging Cases
The Brady Family
Carol with dementia. Mike is healthy
FPOA with gifting, but capacity questionable
Three homes
“Carol’s” kids at consultation presented as if on same page with Mike but shortly thereafter go to war with Mike
Solution?The Brady Family
MEDICAID – Challenging Cases
Ms. Homebody
Living in daughter’s home. Daughter worked full time.
$120,000 remaining.
Paying private ‐caregivers 45 hours per week. $17/hr.
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MEDICAID – Challenging Cases
Ms. Homebody
Living in daughter’s home. Daughter worked full time.
$120,000 remaining.
Paying private ‐caregivers 45 hours per week. $17/hr.
Solution? Establish Poole Trust, Apply for Passport. Used Trust funds to pay for additional are.
MEDICAID – Challenging Cases
Mr. A.
60 years old. Mrs. A. 61
Mr. A. in NH.on a ventilator. $25,000
Mrs. A with $300,000 401K. Cashed out $100,000, but couldn’t access $200,000 because of plan rules
JFS wanted to count full $300,000
Solution?Mr. A.
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MEDICAID – UNIVERSAL TRUTHS
Clients are Stressed Out!
•Must spend down by last day of month.
•Mad dash to the bank to get cashiers checks.
•Financial Institutions are Notoriously Slow.
MEDICAID – UNIVERSAL TRUTHS
You give them a checklist of documentation to organize:
MEDICAID – UNIVERSAL TRUTHS
You give them a checklist of documentation to organize:
They bring you:
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MEDICAID – UNIVERSAL TRUTHS
You advise them to spend down on:
Funerals
Debt
Housing Costs
MEDICAID – UNIVERSAL TRUTHS
You advise them to spend down on:
Funerals
Debt
Housing Costs
MEDICAID – UNIVERSAL TRUTHS
Clients Lie!
They mislead you about gifts.
They mislead you about accounts they own.
This mislead about you about cash.
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MEDICAID – UNIVERSAL TRUTHS
Clients Lie!
They mislead you about gifts.
They mislead you about accounts they own.
They mislead about you about cash.
Until they Panic…. usually the night before we apply.
MEDICAID
Warning: Do not try to slay the 3 Headed Medicaid Monster by yourself. Medicaid laws and rules are extremely complicated. Seek
competent counsel.
Medicaid is only one piece of the puzzle
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Finding the right facility
Quality of Care Memory Care? Private Room? Is it possible to stay
home?
LIFE CARE PLANNING TEAM
A TEAM APPROACH
ECC ROLE:
*Care Advocacy
*Home Visits
*Care Conference
*Arranging Care
*Chart Reviews
* Insurance Issues
ATTORNEY ROLE:
* Wills
* Trusts
* Medicaid
* Estate Plans
* Probate
* Guardianship
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Don’t bury your head in the sand. Plan ahead!!!!!!!
Thank You!
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