Anthony “Tony” Turbeville, president and CEO of Florida-based consulting firm Platinum Benefit Services, Inc., offers assistance to attorneys who provide Medicaid planning to clients entering nursing homes or assisted living care. Antony “Tony” Turbeville and his firm, working with proprietary Status Tracker software, have eased the frustrations and streamlined the complexities of the Medicaid application process for some 10,000 clients.
For well over half a century, Medicaid has helped Americans in need of quality medical care. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Act Amendments that resulted in the formation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. Both programs have expanded over the years not only to cover greater numbers of people but to broaden the set of benefits they offer.
Medicaid was originally established to provide medical insurance to lower-income individuals. Today, groups covered under the program include pregnant women, low-income families, and people with disabilities or who require long-term care, regardless of age.
Because Medicaid is a federal-state partnership program, each state can adjust its Medicaid services to the needs of its population, which means that the types of programs available and the eligibility criteria vary from state to state.
