Expert guides about medicaid in New York from Brevy Care.
Ignoring a recertification notice can end your Medicaid coverage even if you still qualify.
If your New York Medicaid was denied, cut, or terminated, you have the right to appeal and request a State Fair Hearing, and you can often keep your benefits while the appeal is decided.
When one spouse in New York needs Medicaid to pay for nursing home or home-based long-term care, the other spouse does not have to go broke first.
New York's Medicare Savings Programs pay the Medicare Part B premium of $202.90 a month in 2026.
Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) in New York run through ten PACE organizations, counted from the rows of the state's Managed Long Term Care Plan Directory in July 2026.
If you or a parent is 65 or older in New York and need help paying for health care, long-term care, or help at home, New York Medicaid for seniors has a path. But it is not one program.
If you are trying to get a parent or yourself onto a Medicaid New York HCBS waiver right now, start with the hardest part: the main one is not taking new people.
If your mother or father needs a nursing home and the savings are running out, New York Medicaid is almost certainly how the bill gets paid.
In New York, almost all Medicaid home care runs through a managed plan called Managed Long Term Care, or MLTC.
If you're caring for a parent or a close friend in New York, the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) can pay you to do it.
If you or a family member in New York has both Medicare and Medicaid, Medicaid Advantage Plus (MAP) is the plan type that combines both programs under one carrier.
When a New York resident enters a Medicaid-certified nursing facility, nearly all of their monthly income goes to the facility, but the law lets them keep a small slice for personal use.
There are four ways to apply for Medicaid in New York, and which one is right for you depends on where you live and what kind of coverage you need.
If your goal is to keep an aging parent at home in New York rather than move them into a nursing home, the coverage that pays for that care is called Community Medicaid.
If your spouse needs Medicaid long-term care and you do not, New York lets you legally refuse to make your own income and resources available toward their care.
New York Medicaid runs on rules families arriving from other states will not recognize.
New York Medicaid estate recovery reaches only the assets that pass through the deceased recipient's probate estate, and nothing else.
New York's 30-month Medicaid lookback for community-based long-term care was written into state law in 2020, but the statute conditions it on federal approval, and that approval has not been granted.
A Medicaid New York Pooled Income Trust is how a New Yorker with too much income for Community Medicaid keeps that income and still gets home care.
If you typed "New York Medicaid income limit" into Google and got a single number, you got bad information.