Expert guides about medicaid in Tennessee from Brevy Care.
Ignoring a renewal packet can make families lose TennCare, Tennessee's Medicaid coverage, even when they still qualify.
If your Tennessee Medicaid coverage or a covered service was denied, cut, or terminated, you have the right to appeal, request a fair hearing, and often keep your benefits during the appeal.
When a Tennessee family is staring down a nursing home stay, the question almost everyone asks first is the same one: will TennCare, Tennessee's Medicaid program, take Mom's house?
If you're a Tennessean on Medicare with limited income, a Medicare Savings Program can pay your Part B premium, cost-sharing, or both, and automatically enroll you in Part D Extra Help.
If an aging parent needs nursing-facility-level care but wants to keep living at home, the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) can make that possible.
When one spouse needs nursing home or HCBS-waiver Medicaid in Tennessee, federal spousal impoverishment rules stop the program from leaving the at-home spouse with nothing.
Tennessee's Medicaid 5-year lookback lets TennCare review 60 months of asset transfers before approving long-term-care coverage, and the 2026 penalty divisor is $295.87 per day.
Go even one dollar over Tennessee's $2,982/month Medicaid income cap (2026) and a long-term care applicant fails the income test.
A Tennessee nursing-home resident on TennCare keeps a Personal Needs Allowance (PNA) of $70/month, raised from $50 effective January 1, 2025.
Tennessee anchors dual-eligible coverage on BlueCare Plus, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee's Fully Integrated Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (FIDE D-SNP) for Medicare and TennCare.
TennCare is Tennessee's Medicaid program, covering roughly 1.4 million Tennesseans in 2026.
This guide to Tennessee Medicaid covered services answers one question: whether a given procedure, prescription, or doctor visit is covered by TennCare.
If you typed "TennCare income limit" into Google and got back a single number, you got bad information. TennCare (Tennessee's Medicaid program) does not have one income limit.
The short answer: probably not. And if there is a recovery claim, it's narrower than most families fear. Tennessee is one of the more member-friendly Medicaid estate recovery states in the country.
If you've searched "Tennessee Medicaid waivers" and gotten a list that includes things like "Aged & Disabled Waiver" or "Elderly & Disabled Waiver," that list is wrong for Tennessee.
Medicare and TennCare (Tennessee's Medicaid program) sound almost the same, but they are two different programs with two different rules.
If the last thing you heard was that TennCare only pulls adult teeth in an emergency, that rule is gone.
Tennessee runs the most concentrated Medicaid managed care market in the country.
When a parent's hospitalization ends in a nursing home admission, the question that lands within forty-eight hours is the same in every Tennessee family: who is going to pay for this?
You can apply for TennCare, Tennessee's Medicaid program, three ways: online through the TennCare Connect portal, by phone, or on paper.
Tennessee Medicaid for seniors runs under one program with a different name and many doors.
If your child has a significant disability and you have been told your family earns too much for Medicaid, Tennessee's Katie Beckett program may change that answer.
Employment and Community First (ECF) CHOICES is Tennessee's Medicaid home- and community-based services program for people of any age who have an intellectual or developmental disability (I/DD).
TennCare CHOICES is Tennessee's Medicaid program for adults who need nursing-home-level care.