Everything your family needs to apply for Medicaid for your parent — in one packet, for your state.
When a parent suddenly needs nursing-home or long-term care, the application means 5 years of financial records and state forms where one mistake can delay approval by months. MedicaidChecklist builds your family a personalized packet: the document checklist, your state's forms with instructions, the deadlines, and the questions to ask an elder-law attorney.
What you get
What's in the packet
The document checklist
Every record your state's caseworker will ask for — 5 years of financial history, itemized for your parent's exact situation, with check-off boxes.
Your state's actual forms
Which official forms to file, where each one goes, and plain-English instructions — linked straight to the state source, so you can verify everything.
A deadline roadmap
What to do this week, what can wait, and which deadlines are strict — in order, with the reasoning.
Questions for the attorney (if you need one)
If your answers raise red flags — gifts in the last 5 years, a trust, a spouse at home — you get the exact questions that turn a $5,000 engagement into a $300 hour.
Built for California, Florida, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas — each with that state's current limits and forms, cited to the official source and dated.
To be clear: you file the application, not us. The packet makes sure nothing is missing or out of order when you do.
Who runs this
“I built this after my own family went through it: a sudden hospital discharge, a stack of forms, and no idea which of my dad's records the caseworker would ask for.”
— [FOUNDER NAME — human launch item], founder · full story and contact
Verify us
Want to look us up first? Good — you should.
Most people research a site like this before typing anything in. That's the right instinct, so we built MedicaidChecklist to be easy to verify:
Check our numbers against the state's
Every income limit, asset limit, and form in your packet is cited to the official state or federal source and dated — the free check shows the same figures. If we ever disagree with your state's website, trust the state and email us.
The free check risks nothing
No email, no account, no names, no SSN — income and savings in ranges only. There is nothing to steal. Judge the quality of the answer before any money is involved.
Payment is handled by Stripe
If you buy the packet, the card form belongs to Stripe — the payment processor used by Amazon and Google. We never see or store your card number, and every purchase has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
A real person answers for this
MedicaidChecklist is run by a named founder, not an anonymous LLC — who he is, why he built this, and how to reach him. We are not affiliated with any government agency, and we say so everywhere.
Pricing
What it costs — and what it costs to get this wrong
Elder-law attorneys charge $3,000–$15,000 for Medicaid application help. A single month of nursing-home care your family covers out of pocket while a denied application gets refiled runs $9,000 or more.
Eligibility check
Free
- 8 questions, income and savings in ranges only
- Instant answer on the page — no email, no account
- Where your parent stands against your state's current limits
The full packet
$149
one-time · 30-day money-back guarantee
- Personalized document checklist for the 5-year review
- Your state's forms, where they go, plain-English instructions
- Step-by-step roadmap with deadlines
- Attorney-questions appendix triggered by your red flags
- Delivered on screen, as a PDF, and by email
The honest comparison
“Can't I do all of this myself, for free?”
Yes. Every rule, form, and limit in the packet is public information, and your state's website will give it to you at no charge. Plenty of families do it that way. Here's the honest difference:
Doing it yourself
- The state site explains the rules — for everyone, in general
- You work out which rules apply to your parent's situation
- You assemble the document list from caseworker checklists and forums
- You figure out the filing order and which deadlines are strict
- Free, and typically 15–30 hours across several weeks
The packet
- The same public rules — filtered to your parent's answers
- One document checklist for your family's specific situation
- Your state's forms with instructions, in filing order, with deadlines
- Red flags in your answers surfaced before the caseworker finds them
- $149 once — assembled in minutes, sources cited so you can verify
What you're paying for isn't secret information — it's having the public information assembled, sequenced, and specific to your family, during a week when you don't have 20 spare hours.
Privacy, in plain language
What we ask for — and what we never ask for
We ask for
Your parent's state, care situation, marital status, and income and savings as ranges — enough to check the limits, nothing more. Your email only if you buy the packet, so we can send it to you.
We never ask for
Social Security numbers, account numbers, exact balances, or your parent's name. The packet shows you where you'll add those on the official state forms yourself.
See where your parent stands — free, in 2 minutes.
No email. No account. Answer 8 questions, see the answer on the spot.