Home & Land

The recipient's home site is excluded so long as she lives there.  It can be excluded while she is in some type of long term care so long as there is a medically reasonable possibility that she will return home.  Medicaid generally excludes divided interests (such as tenancy in common or life estates) assuming that any sale attempt of an undivided interest would generally be unsuccessful.  Medicaid does, though, count undivided remainder interests in land but does allow for rebuttal of valuation.

Land that is/was income producing can be excluded so long as the equity value is/was less than $6,000.

The home site is excluded regardless of value.  The home site includes surrounding land.  In theory, there is no limitation to amount of surrounding land.  The surrounding land includes various connected plots, plus those lands that may be divided by streams or roads.  This exclusion includes the situation of where the home site is rented and adjoining land is owned by the recipient.

Land that is neither the recipient's home site nor connected to the home site are counted against the resource limit using using the tax value.  Medicaid does not permit rebuttal of the tax value of land owned by the applicant/recipient.