Bisel
Updated 6/29/2009  

ELDER LAW NUMBERS
QUICK REFERENCE

Robert C. Gerhard, III Esquire

 

 

EFFECTIVE SINCE

Personal Needs Allowance

$45

July 1, 2007

MNO-MA Resource Limit

$2,400

 

NMP-MA and PDA Waiver Resource Limit

$2,000 plus $6,000 disregard ($8,000 total)

 

NMP-MA and PDA Waiver Program Income Limit

$2,022

January 1, 2009

Home Maintenance Allowance

$701.40

January 1, 2009 

Minimum Community Spouse Resource Allowance

$21,912

January 1, 2009

Maximum Community Spouse Resource Allowance

$109,560

January 1, 2009

Minimum Monthly Maintenance Needs Allowance

$1,822

July 1, 2009

Maximum Monthly Maintenance Needs Allowance

$2,739

January 1, 2009

Shelter Standard

$547

July 1, 2009

Utility Monthly Allowances

 

October 1, 2008

Utility Allowance, including heat:

$491

 

Utility Allowance, non-heating

$258

 

Utility Allowance, phone only

$32

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Avg. Monthly Cost of PA Nursing Facility Care

$7,235.82

January 1, 2009

Avg. Daily Private Pay Rate (Daily Penalty Divisor)

$237.89

 January 1, 2009

 

 

 

Pennsylvania Medicaid Long-term Care is updated and published annually.  Visit the George T. Bisel Company website, www.bisel.com, regularly for the most up-to-date “Elder Law Numbers” and the online “pocket part” to this work.  To purchase the 2009 edition of Pennsylvania Medicaid, Long-Term Care, please call the George T. Bisel Company directly at (215) 922-5760.

 

Robert C. Gerhard, III Esquire limits his Montgomery County practice to elder law matters.  He specializes in asset protection and planning for long-term care.  He is author of the legal treatise, Pennsylvania Medicaid, Long-Term Care 2009 Edition, and the Pennsylvania Medicaid Law Source, both published by the George T. Bisel Company, and can be contacted at www.paelderlaw.net with questions or comments.