Long-Term Care and Medicaid Planning Services

Worried About Nursing Home Expense? We Can Help!

The attorneys at Calvin Curtis, Attorney at Law, PLLC have been Utah’s leading long term care planners for 16 years. We’ve helped hundreds of clients – just like you – plan for immediate and future needs, including nursing home care. If you have a spouse or parent who needs long-term care, we can help you determine how best to pay for such care, including qualifying for Medicaid assistance where appropriate.

What is Medicaid?

Medicaid is the only government program that pays for long term custodial nursing home care. It has complicated asset and income tests, designed to insure persons qualifying for such care have minimal assets, generally $2,000 or less. If an applicant is married, we can insure the “community” spouse remaining at home retains the largest possible share of the couple’s assets and income. We can also help an institutionalized spouse “spenddown” in a smart way to best protect the community spouse, if applicable, and insure Medicaid eligibility for the institutionalized spouse at the earliest possible moment.

What About Estate Recovery and the Family Home?

Like other states, upon the death of a Medicaid recipient, Utah seeks to recover the value of Medicaid services provided, though they generally do not do so if the institutionalized spouse is survived by a community spouse. We can help minimize estate recovery claims and retain the family home to the extent possible.

Aren’t Your Services Expensive?

The cost of our work can be surprisingly affordable, beginning with an initial consultation of an hour or more for $250. While planning for long-term nursing home care can cost considerably more, many people find it cost effective, as we can help you more readily and quickly qualify for government assistance programs that may ultimately be worth thousands of dollars a month. Moreover, our work can maximize the assets retained by a community spouse at home and provide considerable peace of mind knowing your loved ones are secure.

Clients frequently tell us “I’m so glad I found you” or “You’ve helped us so much getting my spouse or my parent settled in a care center, and provided such peace of mind.” Unfortunately, we also sometimes hear “I wish I’d known about you sooner.”

No other care planner has the experience we do – we’ve handled hundreds of long-term care cases. And no other law firm has the credentials we do.