In New Jersey, is the Medicaid Application process time consuming?
Medicaid demands proof of every financial transaction going back to January 1, 2006 and in some instances, Medicaid goes back for 5 years prior to the application. Accurate records should be gathered and a complete Medicaid application furnished to the County Board of Social Services to make the processing simpler. If records are inaccurate or incomplete or if a Medicaid application package is disorganized, the Medicaid Agency will continue to insist on additional information and the application will be delayed indefinitely. Submission of a complete Medicaid Application requires many hours of time. It is estimated that a professional assembling a Medicaid Application spends approximately 25-40 dedicated and undisturbed hours assembling and organizing the information. A person unfamiliar with the process will spend many times that amount of time.
