Expert guides about medicaid in South Carolina from Brevy Care.
Missing a renewal can end your South Carolina Medicaid coverage even if you still qualify.
If your South Carolina Medicaid coverage was denied, cut, or terminated, you have the right to appeal and request a fair hearing, and you can often keep your benefits while the appeal is decided.
South Carolina Medicaid pays for care at home instead of in a nursing home, mainly through the Community Choices (CC) Waiver.
$60 a month is what South Carolina Medicaid lets a nursing home resident keep for personal spending, an amount called the Personal Needs Allowance.
South Carolina Medicaid pays for nursing home care through Healthy Connections, the state's Medicaid program, once Medicare's short rehabilitation window runs out.
South Carolina Healthy Connections Medicaid covers long-term care through an income-cap system with a 2026 limit of $2,982 per month and a required Miller Trust for anyone over that cap.
South Carolina Medicaid spousal impoverishment rules set a $66,480 community spouse resource standard for 2026, and that is a floor on what the at-home spouse keeps, not a ceiling.
South Carolina Medicare Savings Programs pay Medicare premiums and cost-sharing for income-eligible seniors and people with disabilities enrolled in Medicare.
South Carolina Medicaid estate recovery is probate-only: under S.C. Code Ann.
You apply for South Carolina Medicaid through South Carolina Healthy Connections online, by phone, by mail or fax, or in person at a county office.
South Carolina Medicaid income limits come in two versions, and which one applies depends on why you need coverage.