Two separate Medicaid questions
Short answer
Wisconsin has not adopted the ACA's Medicaid expansion. Instead it runs BadgerCare Plus, covering childless adults up to 100% of the Federal Poverty Level. This is a completely separate eligibility pathway from long-term-care Medicaid for seniors, which uses Wisconsin's own aged/blind/disabled (non-MAGI) income and asset rules.
- BadgerCare Plus covers childless adults up to 100% FPL, without an enrollment cap, but below the ACA's 138% FPL expansion threshold -- adults between 100-138% FPL are directed to marketplace subsidies instead. This classifies Wisconsin as a partial-expansion / non-expansion state.
- Long-term-care Medicaid for seniors (nursing home Medicaid, and the Family Care/IRIS home-and-community-based pathways) is assessed under a separate aged/blind/disabled income and asset test, not the BadgerCare Plus expansion pathway. Do not conflate the two when researching eligibility for a parent.
The exact current income/asset limits for Wisconsin's institutional (nursing-home)
Medicaid pathway were not confirmed from a primary source in our most recent research pass -- pull
them directly from DHS's Medicaid eligibility pages before relying on a specific dollar figure.
