Safeguarding Medicaid Act

This bill requires all states and territories to check the assets (like savings and property) of everyone applying for Medicaid to help determine if they qualify. Right now, only certain groups — people 65 and older, blind individuals, or people with disabilities — have their assets checked, but this bill would expand that requirement to all Medicaid applicants. It also requires states to use resource tests, which look at what a person owns, when deciding Medicaid eligibility, and it tells the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to track any money the federal government saves because of these changes. States that don't follow these new rules would have to submit plans explaining how they will fix the problem.

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