“Kennedy, Inhofe introduce bill to protect Medicaid recipients”

“Kennedy, Inhofe introduce bill to protect Medicaid recipients,” Senator John Kennedy (R, LA)

Quote:

“The Protecting Medicaid Beneficiaries Act would expand the Asset Verification Services (AVS) program, which helps ensure that Medicaid beneficiaries are legally eligible to receive benefits, to all Medicaid applicants. AVS currently only applies to aged, blind and disabled Medicaid applicants.”

 

LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:

A step in the right direction if it passes. But the irony is that fraud is not Medicaid’s only problem. As important are all the legal ways people qualify for Medicaid’s most expensive benefit, long-term care, without having to spend down assets appreciably.