It is not uncommon for people to confuse Medicare with Medicaid.  As a reminder, Medicare is an entitlement program that is available to everybody age 65 and older.  There are four parts to Medicare:  Part A, which covers hospital visits; Part B, which covers doctor’s visits; Part C, which is a managed care plan; and Part D, which covers prescription drugs.  You may be asking yourself which part of Medicare covers long-term health care, and the answer to this question is that it really doesn’t. Medicare only covers the first 100 days of care in a long-term medical facility, although

What is the difference between Medicaid, AHCCCS, & ALTCS If you have started looking into Arizona Medicaid with a Medicaid attorney, you might be wondering why it is sometimes called Medicaid, sometimes called AHCCCS, and sometimes called ALTCS.  Some simple clarification will probably be quite helpful.  Medicaid is the general term describing the federal program that provides health care to the poor, blind, disabled and elderly.  Each state has its own version of the Medicaid program, and Arizona Medicaid is called Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, or AHCCCS (pronounced “access”) for short. Within AHCCCS, there are two branches, one

Most people who apply for Arizona Medicaid do so because they genuinely need help paying for their long-term health care.  Simply put, most people with the resources to afford long-term health care pay for that care, and save themselves the worry and trouble of applying for a benefit for which they will not qualify.  But even though most ALTCS Medicaid applicants really need help paying for their long-term care, the vast majority of applicants are denied eligibility.  And unfortunately, many of these applicants never reapply for the benefit because they do not know of the ALTCS planning tools that could