Since the Medicaid program’s beginning, how Medicaid is funded, and thus the amount of people it is able to reach is a crucial issue. Each state takes a different approach in meeting the federal mandate. Overall, much has changed in how states address estate recovery since the last NAELA Journal article on this topic was published, in 2005.
Michael Monteforte, Jr. is the founding attorney of Monteforte Law, P.C., an estate planning and elder law firm in Woburn, Massachusetts. He was admitted to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in January 2002 and to federal practice in the U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, in March 2006. He has practiced estate planning and elder law in Massachusetts for over twenty years.
