Family and Children's Medicaid MA-3322 – COMMUNITY SPOUSE RESOURCE PROTECTION

ISSUED 05/01/11 – CHANGE NO. 07-11

I. INTRODUCTION

Community Spouse Resource Protection is a reserve procedure used when a legally married individual needs Medicaid help with the cost of care when institutionalized for more that 30 days. This includes help with the cost of hospital stay. An assessment is done to determine how much of the couple’s assets can be kept by the spouse at home. Whenever the individual is institutionalized for more than 30 days, community spousal resource protection should be explained to the representative and the record documented. Policy for this program is contained in MA-2231, Community Spouse Resource Protection of the Aged, Blind, and Disabled Medicaid Manual.