Neva Holt, a Tennessee resident and small business owner, was denied Medicaid assistance for nursing home care after a determination that she transferred land to grandchildren that could have been used as an asset to generate income for her nursing home care. Holt’s family arranged for her to be cared for by a disabled caregiver after she left the nursing home, and appealed the decision by TennCare to deny her Medicaid benefits. On Jan. 7 her family successfully got the decision reversed due to a ruling by an assistant commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Human Service that Holt did not have an ownership interest in the land. However, the decision came six days after the 88-year-old grandmother died.
See Tom Wilemon, Tenn. Woman Gets Medicaid Help – 6 Days After Her Death, USA Today, Jan. 14, 2015.
