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Major Asset Transfer Restrictions Dropped From Senate Bill
Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee were reported to have reached an agreement on Medicaid and other...
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ElderLawAnswers Member Featured on NPR's Morning Edition
In a segment on proposals to tighten Medicaid's asset transfer rules, National Public Radio's Morning Edition...
Read moreNew Study Finds That Few Nursing Home Residents Transferred Assets
Agreeing with earlier results, a study by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured finds that asset trans...
Read moreMontana High Court Rules in Religious Community Medicaid Case
The Montana Supreme Court has ruled that a religious community with millions of dollars in assets is holding those a...
Read moreResidential Care Home Not Covered Under LTC Insurance Policy
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has ruled that a long-term care policyholder who moved to a resident...
Read moreNew Reports Suggest Asset Transfer Changes Won't Ease Pressure on Medicaid LTC Services
The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) makes it much harder for individuals to qualify for Medicaid nursing home be...
Read moreInspectors Are Missing Many Nursing Home Violations, Report Finds
State nursing home inspectors are missing "serious deficiencies that cause actual harm or immediate jeopardy to pati...
Read moreAdult Children Could Be on Hook for Parents' Nursing Home Bills
The adult children of elderly parents in many states could be held liable for their parents' nursing home bills as a...
Read moreResidents of Most States May Have Time to Plan Under the Old Transfer Rules
Although Congress passed a new law February 1 further restricting the ability of the elderly to transfer assets befo...
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