I'm trying to find feedback from those that have been able to access care under the Medicaid NHTD waiver program in NY State. What has been your or a family member's experience? Thank you! Our family member suffered a TBI and is nearing discharge from subacute in the coming months. We are currently applying for Nursing home medicaid seeing as we can't financially pay privately and wait most likely the 6 months it will take for such services to be made available. However we remain committed to bringing our loved one home so that she may continue to receive therapy *should* she continue to show marked improvement in the coming months.
In our case, my mother did a spousal waiver for my father so that he could be placed in a LTC facility under Medicaid. He went into the rehab wing and Medicare covered the three weeks. After that he was moved to the NH wing and was "Medicaid Pending". We did not have to pay any money out at all. We filed his Medicaid application in April of 2023 and did not hear back until July that he was on Medicaid retroactively from March 1, 2023. The NH was paid everything and there was no private pay at all.
It required that all the assets that my parents owned together were moved into my mother's name only. We eventually had to file for my mother to be on Medicaid also, which e were able to successfully do, and she went into the same facility.
It is a lot of work. But I can say our lawyer did a good job. This is was not cheap but my parents paid the legal fees and the costs for their medicaid applications, not us daughters.