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Posts from the ‘Medicaid & MassHealth’ Category

0February 2, 2024Preserving Assets and Maximum Income for the Community Spouse in 2024 When the Institutionalized Spouse Enters a Nursing Home and Applies for MassHealth

0November 17, 2023The MCLE Book Entitled “Elder and Disability Law in Massachusetts” Has Been Published

0October 9, 2023The United States Supreme Court Still Has Not Decided Whether to Take up Our Massachusetts Cases on Annuities of Community Spouses

0June 30, 2023Minimum Monthly Maintenance Needs (Income) Allowance for Nursing Home Resident’s Spouse Is Now $2,465.00 from 7/1/2023 until 6/30/2024

0June 8, 2023The Dermody and Mondor Cases on Spousal Annuities Have Been Appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court

0March 13, 2023In Dermody v. Executive Office of Health and Human Services, the Supreme Judicial Court Rules that the Annuities of Community Spouses Must Name the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Beneficiary

0July 26, 2022Minimum Monthly Maintenance Needs Allowance for Nursing Home Resident’s Spouse Increased to $2,288.75 during 7/1/2022-6/30/2023

0July 27, 2021In Fournier v. Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, the Supreme Judicial Court Has Eliminated Most of the MassHealth Agency’s Convoluted Arguments Against Irrevocable Trusts

0March 15, 2021In Guilfoil v. Sudders, the SJC Approved the Use of Nominee Trusts in MassHealth Planning

0March 11, 2021Limited Powers of Appointment in Irrevocable Trusts Are Wrongfully Challenged by the MassHealth Agency

1January 28, 2020Here Is the Massachusetts State Plan on Medicaid, Unavailable Online

0September 17, 2019Does “Imputed Driving Value” Somehow Make an Irrevocable Trust a Countable Asset for MassHealth Purposes?

0September 13, 2019An Analysis of the Newly-Discovered “Law Review Form for Trusts” Utilized by MassHealth Lawyers

1August 7, 2019Are Lawyers Who Represent the MassHealth Agency Complicit in Hiding Secret Trust Regulations?

0January 28, 2019Does the Lifetime Lien Placed on Real Estate by the MassHealth Agency Terminate Upon the MassHealth Recipient’s Death?

0January 25, 2019Update on the Maas/Hirvi Litigation, Requiring the MassHealth Agency to Issue Proper Denial Notices and Act with Reasonable Promptness

0June 4, 2018Update on Spousal Refusal for MassHealth Purposes

1May 30, 2018Ongoing Due Process Violations by the Office of Medicaid Are Highlighted in the Affidavits of Dozens of Lawyers

1October 4, 2017Must Both Spouses Always Cooperate When There Is a MassHealth Application for One of Them?

4September 27, 2017In the 2017 Case of Daley v. Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Rules That a Home May Be Effectively Deeded to an Irrevocable Trust under Federal Medicaid Law