Move your out-of-state parents to Florida if they need to go into a nursing home

Attorney Tom Olsen: Robert, there are some people out there listening right now saying, great, wonderful Tom, we live in central Florida. We got parents that are out of state. They might be going in a nursing home soon. What should we do? I think this answer is quite simple. Number one, they should move the parents to Florida into a skilled nursing facility very near them. Just like so that we've said that they can start visiting with mom, dad on a regular basis when they're in a skilled nursing facility.

They might say well God, can they qualify for Medicaid if we move them here tomorrow? Can they qualify for Medicaid the next day?

Attorney Robert Hidock: The answer is absolutely yes. There is no residency requirement. The residency requirement is just simply this, step foot into Florida, make your intent to stay in Florida and you are a Florida resident, and take advantage of the great Medicaid system that we actually have here in Florida compared to other states. We have a lot of elderly people, a lot of elder law lobbyists that give us a lot of Medicaid-compliant tools to protect assets that other states just don't have.

Tom: What we're really saying is that Medicaid is a combination of both state and federal law. What's true here in Florida is not necessarily true in other states where mom and dad might live. Move them to Florida because as far as Florida's concerned, we've got some very generous Medicaid laws here in Florida.

Robert: We do actually have got a client right now in transition from Pennsylvania to here and they're private paying in Pennsylvania and they're moving their dad from Pennsylvania to their daughter here in Orlando. Once they come here, they're then transitioning to the skilled nursing facility on Medicaid.

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