Increasing asset limits placed on low-income Medicare beneficiaries seeking Medicaid supplemental coverage, which in many states have remained unchanged for 30 years, could increase eligibility by as much as 7.5%, according to researchers.
Going further, replacing the asset test with a “high wealth category test,” and thus allowing all low-income Medicare beneficiaries who lack investments, secondary residences or businesses to qualify, would increase Medicaid eligibility among this population by 20.5%, they added. The researchers — from the University of Pittsburgh, Tufts