Is the Medicaid Application process time consuming?
Medicaid demands proof of every financial transaction for 3 years prior to the application and in some instances Medicaid goes back for 5 years. Accurate records should be gathered and a complete Medicaid application furnished to the Board of Social Services to make processing simpler. If records are inaccurate or incomplete or if a Medicaid application package is in disarray, the Medicaid Agency will continue to insist on additional information and the application will be delayed inordinantly. Submission of a complete Medicaid Application requires many hours of time. It is estimated that a professional assembling a Medicaid Application spends approximately 20 hours assembling and organizing the information. A person unfamiliar with the process will spend many times that amount of time.
