Expert guides about medicaid in Kentucky from Brevy Care.
A missed renewal packet can end your Kentucky Medicaid coverage even if you still qualify.
If your Medicaid coverage in Kentucky was denied, cut, or terminated, you have the right to appeal, request a fair hearing, and often keep your benefits while the appeal is decided.
Kentucky Medicaid pays for home and community care for older adults and people with physical disabilities through the Home and Community Based (HCB) waiver.
Most of a Kentucky nursing-home resident's monthly income goes to the facility toward the cost of care once Medicaid is paying.
Kentucky Medicaid sets a $2,000 asset limit for a single senior, and a nursing-home applicant with income over $2,982 a month qualifies only through a Miller Trust, not a spend-down.
Kentucky Medicaid spousal impoverishment rules protect the at-home spouse when one partner needs nursing home care.
Kentucky's Medicare Savings Programs can hand the $202.90 Medicare Part B premium back to your Social Security check every month.
Kentucky Medicaid estate recovery reaches the estate of someone who got nursing-facility or waiver care at 55 or older, but a verified surviving spouse stops it.
To apply for Kentucky Medicaid, you have three channels: online at kynect, by phone at 1-855-306-8959, or in person at a local Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) office.
Kentucky Medicaid pays for long-term nursing home care, the custodial care that Medicare's short skilled-nursing benefit doesn't cover.
Kentucky Medicaid income limits come in two versions under one name, and the first thing to settle is which one is yours.