Currently, Medicaid’s 5-year look back period applies only to Institutional Medicaid but that may be changing. New York proposed legislation to implement a 30 month (2.5 year) look back period for Medicaid applicants looking to be approved for Community Medicaid. It is important to note that this is just a proposed legislation that the earliest It is expected to go into effect is April of 2024, but unofficially, there is information that it would be delayed even further.
By Esther Schwartz Zelmanovitz