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Louisiana Medicaid Eligibility Manual Eligibility Determinations

Reissued March 18, 2025 Replacing March 5, 2024 Page 3 of I-1660 Revised/added text indicated by underscore Deleted text indicated by “”

Note:

Hospitalization is not considered an absence for purposes of this definition.

Separate Resources of Community Spouse

Resources acquired by the community spouse outside of marriage either by prior ownership or inheritance and which are held separately and are identifiable as owned solely by the community spouse.

Separate Resources of LTC/HCBS/ACH Institutionalized Individuals

Resources acquired by the LTC/HCBS/ACH institutionalized spouse outside of marriage either by prior ownership or inheritance and which are held separately and are identifiable as owned solely by the institutionalized spouse.

Shared Resources

Resources acquired during the marriage including community assets, which may be held in the name of one or both members of the couple.

Spousal Resource Standard

The maximum allowable amount of a couple's combined countable resources which may be allocated for the use and maintenance of the community spouse. Refer to Table Z-800 Spousal Impoverishment Maintenance Needs and Resource Standards.

I-1663 SPOUSAL RESOURCES ASSESSMENT

An assessment of the couple's resources, shall be completed for the beginning of each continuous period of institutionalization:

● At the request of an institutionalized individual, the community spouse, or the authorized representative of either spouse whether or not Medicaid application is made, or