“TONI KING: Is Medicaid a good long-term care option?,” by Toni King, Chron

“Toni, I have a friend who just received a bill from the state of Texas for his mother’s Medicaid nursing home care. No one informed him that Medicaid (the State of Texas) was running a tab of the entire healthcare that Medicaid paid and would take his mother’s house. Now Medicaid wants to be reimbursed for over $125,000 that was spent for his mother’s care and her expensive prescriptions. Stan recently received a document from MERP saying that Medicaid wants the money used for her care back because his mother owned the house that he lives in.”

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

Click through and read what this elder law attorney, and thousands more around the country, are telling readers and clients about Medicaid for LTC. By the way, state Medicaid estate recovery units routinely advise recipients and their representatives of this liability. For details on Texas, see our 2007 report Don’t Mess With Texans’ Long-Term Care–Fix It.