Medicaid Planning

Judge Orders Stop to Medicare Refund Collection Effort

A federal judge has ordered the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to halt efforts to collect refunds ...

Judge Dismisses House Members' Suit Challenging Medicaid Law

A U.S. district court has dismissed a...

Misleading Annuity Sales Pitch Targets Seniors

Over the last several months, many seniors have received cards in the mail from the "American Senior Alliance" or th...

ELA Member Confirms the Law on Key Medicaid Coverage Issue

There sometimes is a lengthy gap between the time that a nursing home resident shifts from being a private pay resi...

Senate Rejects Bush&#39s Proposed Medicaid Cuts

By a vote of 52-48, the U.S. Senate has approved a critical amendment striking massive Medicaid cuts from the budget...

Medicare Relaxes Guidelines for 'Homebound' Definition

Medicare officials have issued guidelines allowing homebound beneficiaries to leave their homes for special occasions--such as family reunions, graduations or funerals--without losing their home health care benefits. More . . .

Guardian Should Have Respected Couple

The person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of an institutionalized Medicaid recipient failed in her role because she did not respect the efforts that the recipient and his wife had made to protect their small savings from...

Former Medicare/Medicaid Chief Says Universal Care Is Doable

A former head of Medicare and Medicaid says that covering the nation's 41 million uninsured would cost only a small fraction of the $1.6 trillion that will be spent on health care this year, and would result in unexpected savings...