Nursing Home Medicaid resource limit must be raised to allow for maintenance of community spouse.

The State is required pursuant to the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act to increase the resource limit for nursing home Medicaid where doing so would enable a nursing home resident’s non-institutionalized (or “community”) spouse to meet a monthly maintenance needs allowance, the amount of income necessary to assure that the community spouse had sufficient income available to her while her spouse was institutionalized.