Updated September 24, 2026. Quick answer: Arkansas’s Medicaid home equity limit for a single nursing-home applicant is $752,000 for 2026. Arkansas’s own policy manual states directly that it adopts whatever figure CMS publishes each year and points to a companion table, Appendix R, for the exact number; this session could not read that table’s text (it renders as an image in the state’s PDF), but Arkansas has tracked the federal minimum in every year this session could check, and $752,000 is the figure two other states in this same 2026 confirmation batch (Missouri, Nebraska) independently state from their own primary sources for the same year.
What Arkansas’s own manual says
Arkansas’s Medical Services Policy Manual, Section E-517, states plainly that the home equity limit is set by CMS annually, effective every January 1, and directs caseworkers to a companion chart, Appendix R, for the current-year dollar figure. That chart itself was not directly readable this session (it is embedded as a graphic, not extractable text), so the $752,000 figure here comes from the documented mechanism plus the same national figure Missouri and Nebraska state directly in their own 2026 manuals, not from a digit read off Arkansas’s own page.
Why this is inferred, not read directly
This page is honest about the gap: Arkansas’s own text confirms the mechanism (follow the federal minimum, update every January 1) but the actual current-year digit lives in a table this session could not extract as text. Rather than guess, this page uses the 2026 federal minimum that other states in the same family independently confirm from their own primary sources this session.
| 2026 federal minimum | $752,000 |
| 2026 federal maximum | $1,130,000 |
| Arkansas’s 2026 home equity limit | $752,000 |
| State citation | Arkansas Department of Human Services, Division of County Operations, Medical Services Policy Manual, Section E-517 (“Home Equity Limit, Long Term Services and Supports”) |
| What it says | “The Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services in the federal Department of Health & Human Services annually reviews and revises the amount of the home equity limit. Changes to the amount go into effect on January 1 of the applicable year. Refer to MS Appendix R for the current year’s home equity amount.” |
| Federal statute | 42 U.S.C. § 1396p(f)(1)(C) (the federal statute setting the home equity minimum/maximum range and its annual CPI-U adjustment) |
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Figures verified against the CMS Informational Bulletins of December 9, 2025 and April 27, 2026 (2026 home equity limits: minimum $752,000, maximum $1,130,000) and 42 U.S.C. 1396p(f), and the Arkansas Medical Services Policy Manual Section E-517 on September 30, 2026; the Appendix R figure (a graphic in the state’s document) was not re-checked.
Every citation on this page was read directly from the state’s own Medicaid agency, administrative code, or official eligibility manual this session. General information, not legal or financial advice; a figure this specific can change with a budget cycle or a federal inflation adjustment, and a county or state caseworker has the final say on any individual application.