Kate Ashford

So I encourage people to call and ask.

Easiest place to start is your state Medicaid office.

You can probably find that at Medicaid.gov, although that site is a little hard to navigate.

So you can also just Google your state Medicaid office and go from there.

Your local office on aging is a good place to go.

You can find that at eldercare.acl.gov.

You can find the one closest to you.

There's also a website called Medicaidplanningassistance.org.

It's a site from the American Council on Aging.

It's got a lot of information on Medicaid.

And then if you really are just like, I don't know what to do.

This feels complicated.

There are folks out there called certified Medicaid planners.

You can talk to them.

They do cost money.

They may offer a free consultation to get a sense of your situation and whether they can help you.

I actually did this when I was working on something for my mom a couple of years ago and it was helpful and I didn't need anything beyond the free consultation.

So-

No harm in calling.

It was a few thousand.