Many older Americans should review whether their estates or adult children might be required to pay for long-term care they ...

The average Medicare-covered nursing home stay is only 22 days, and Medicare does not pay for non-skilled assistance with ...

Medicare does cover skilled nursing care for up to 100 days, but only under limited circumstances, such as when you've just ...

Medicare doesn’t cover nonmedical long-term care. This is why purchasing a policy to help with a long-term need becomes ...

Medicare also won't pay for one of the biggest expenses you might encounter later in life -- long-term care. And if you don't ...

High costs of long-term care necessitate discussions with clients of strategies to most effectively cover this contingency.

Since Maggie is in her 60s and still working, it’s unlikely she would meet the requirements for undue hardship if the state ...

The Medicaid Primary Care Improvement Act would allow states to contract directly with direct primary care (DPC) practices, ...

In 1990, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), in introducing a report to Congress from the U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care (also known ...

To keep the struggling system afloat, the state has bailed out nursing homes with around $38 million in state and federal Medicaid dollars for what are known as extraordinary financial relief over the ...

Increasing pressure from managed care and other payer organizations did not dramatically undercut overall nursing home ...

But the nation will need about 740,000 additional home care workers over the next decade, according to the Bureau of Labor ...