The Nursing Home Will Tell the Family Dad Has to Private-Pay for 12 Months Before It Will Consider Medicaid. They Will Pay $118,000, and That Requirement Has Been Illegal Since 1987
Nursing homes have been quietly telling families that Dad must pay privately for a full year before Medicaid is even on the table, and most families hand over the money without ever asking whether that rule is real. Picture a family sitting across a desk from the admissions director of…