Any advice on moving my Mom from one nursing home to another?

JoAnn29: If he's disabled,.how can he work?

True about the 2000 when it comes to paying for a nursing home. My nephew is allowed to make a certain amount of money and still receive medical benefits thru the state of NJ. SSD does not count as income.

JoAnn29: Apparently you ARE allowed to have both, but Medicaid allows you to only own $2, 000 of assets.

When ur in a nursing facility you have what ever Medical you had before you entered the facility. If 65 and up that would Medicare and any supplimental you chose. Medicaid pays for the cost of you living at the facility.

My nephew is on SSD. Medicare is his primary, medicaid his secondary. With Medicaid he has NJ Horizon and United Health for his perscriptions which he gets help for. He also gets glasses and Dental thru medicaid.

JoAnn29: You have to be talking about Medicare and Medicare SUPPLEMENTAL. I have never heard of a person being on Medicare and Medicaid.

Llama, Medicare is your medical, medicaid pays for the facility.

Why are you moving her? That is going to be very difficult for her even under the best of circumstances and could even end her life.

How can she have both Medicare and Medicaid?

T may be more reasonable to hire a nurse to ride with you if you can put her in a car for the trip.

MIL lived in Central Fla and SIL had made arrangements to transport her to Atlanta. So there are transport companies in your area. Yes, its out of pocket. You need to talk to Social Services at the facility ur Mom is at. If you have picked one then the two Social Services can coordinate with each other. You will have to be ready to transport when a bed comes available.

Medicaid has to approve the move by coordinating two different counties and the new NH has to have an open bed. You pay out of pocket for the move with an ambulance company and it is very expensive. Don't get your hopes up.