{"id":820454,"date":"2026-07-23T08:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820454\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T08:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:28:18","slug":"full-care-to-partial-service-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820454\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Care to Partial Service Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Increasing gaps in Medicaid-funded long-term care (LTC) have shifted the focus of attorneys in elder law towards helping clients in reorganizing assets to accommodate hybrid public- and private-pay models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Up until 2015, family members needing full-time care had only two options: private payment or Medicaid eligibility. Medicaid estate planning emerged as a dominant approach to earn coverage for the majority of Americans who didn\u2019t meet the Medicaid eligibility threshold because they had above $2,000 in countable assets and who were unable to pay for private care insurance requiring at least $200,000 in assets.1<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Medicaid estate planning refers to the use of legally compliant financial and estate-planning strategies to satisfy Medicaid\u2019s st&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Increasing gaps in Medicaid-funded long-term care (LTC) have shifted the focus of attorneys in elder law towards helping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-820454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}