Suit Contests Hospitals' Practice of Not Admitting Patients Prior to Nursing Home Transfer
Seven Medicare patients have filed a class action lawsuit challenging a Medicare policy that allows hospitals to place pat...
Read moreThe short answer is that there are a lot of protections both for spouses of nursing home residents and for disabled children of applicants for Medicaid. But it may take some moving of money and ownership around when and if your father needs a nursing home care. I understand your mother's reluctance to spend hard-earned and hard-saved dollars on legal fees. But if the elder law attorney can save your mother even one month of paying out of pocket for your father's care or one sleepless night (or both), that will be money well spent. I strongly urge you and your mother to consult with an Indiana elder law attorney. Good luck.
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Seven Medicare patients have filed a class action lawsuit challenging a Medicare policy that allows hospitals to place pat...
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Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) is introducing a bill to change Medicare law so that elderly patients are not charged unfai...
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A growing number of Medicare recipients are spending days in the hospital before moving to a nursing home, only to find th...
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