{"id":15163,"date":"2020-02-06T08:11:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T13:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15163"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:11:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T13:11:32","slug":"understanding-how-medicare-and-medicaid-cover-long-term-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15163","title":{"rendered":"Understanding how Medicare and Medicaid cover long-term care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need to understand what will Medicare and Medicaid cover as we grow older and need long-term care.\u00a0 First, Medicare doesn\u2019t typically cover nursing homes except in specific circumstances but generally, Medicaid does \u2013 for qualified people. The attached article gives a brief overview of what both programs pay or do not pay and what your options are to pay for a long-term care. Read article<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/medicare-medicaid-pay-nursing-homes-133123204.html\"> here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000023372772Small-700x465.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8007\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000023372772Small-700x465-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000023372772Small-700x465-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000023372772Small-700x465.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need to understand what will Medicare and Medicaid cover as we grow older and need long-term care.\u00a0 First, Medicare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21,16,6,9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-finance","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-nursing-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15164,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163\/revisions\/15164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}