Resource Limits Applicable to Institutional Groups

Resource Limits Applicable to Institutional Groups. A. For Medicaid coverage groups considered to be “institutional” coverage groups, the following set of resource limits apply: 1. Effective 10-01-1989, Spousal Impoverishment resource rules apply to married couples whereby one spouse is in a medical facility while the other spouse remains at home. 2. The Community Spouse is allowed a higher resource limit set by federal law and subject to increase each year. 3. Effective 04-01-1993 until the coverage group ended 04-30-2005, Spousal Impoverish rules applied to Hospice Coverage group. 4. Effective 01-01-1994, Spousal Impoverishment resource rules began to be applied to the HCBS Waiver programs.