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description: "Vendor Care pays the nursing provider after eligibility and level-of-care review, while a resident generally retains $50 monthly for personal needs."
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Missouri · Nursing Home Coverage

# Missouri Nursing Home Medicaid

Last updated 2026-10-20

**Quick answer:** Missouri's nursing home Medicaid is called Vendor Nursing Care. Residents keep a $50 monthly personal-needs allowance and pay the rest of their income toward care after allowed deductions, and the resource maximum after a Division of Assets is $6,220.50.

Missouri's nursing-facility Medicaid pathway is called Vendor Nursing Care, or just Vendor Care. Reimbursement flows directly to the nursing-services provider, and the state's non-MAGI chart describes Vendor Care as covering care in a nursing facility and other specified institutional settings.

The financial side isn't a simple income-cap test. Missouri's July 2026 chart applies a resident's income to the facility as "surplus" only after subtracting the personal-needs allowance and allowable deductions — things like medical insurance premiums, allotments, and child support. That same chart sets the resource maximum at $6,220.50 after a Division of Assets.

## Missouri figures

- Resource maximum after Division of Assets: $6,220.50
- Vendor-care personal-needs allowance: $50/month

## Sources and official resources

- [Missouri DSS: Nursing Home](https://dss.mo.gov/mhd/nursing-home)
- [CMS: 2026 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards](https://www.medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/cib04272026.pdf)

Rules and figures change. Confirm current details with the agency before you act.

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