Admin. Appeal AA-3160, Appeal No. 1429166

Outcome: Medicaid approved; unrelated caregiver

Description: Oral agreement to pay an unrelated caregiver approved where detailed letters from Medicaid applicant's children confirming agreement, caregiver's testimony and a detailed log of entries from the applicant's checkbook register were sufficient evidence that the transfers totalling $19,000 were made in exchange for fair market value and not improper.