Friday, January 10, 2014

Banks Can Report Abuse of Elderly Without Violating Privacy Laws

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UC Irvine's Center of Excellence on Elder Abuse and Neglect - committed to eliminating  abuse of the elderly The Federal Government...

Medicaid Applicant Penalized for Assignment of Life Insurance to Funeral Trust

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An Illinois appeals court recently held that a Medicaid applicant who purchased a life insurance policy that was assigned to a trust desi...
Friday, January 3, 2014

Filial Responsibility- Complicating Estate, Retirement and Asset Protection Planning

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Twenty-eight states currently have laws making adult children responsible for their parents if their parents can't afford to take care o...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Tragic Consequences Result from Simple or Do-It-Yourself Medicaid Planning

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Simplistic or Do-It-Yourself Medicaid planning is a "cure worse than the disease."  Yet another in a long line of tragic cases il...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Pennsylvania's Filial Support Law Survives Federal Challenge

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Pennsylvania's filial support statute has survived a multi-faceted challenge in federal court. Filial responsibility includes the leg...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Medicare Ends ‘Improvement Standard’ which Required 'Likelihood of Improvement' in Chronic Conditions before Coverage of Skilled Care and Therapy Services

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has updated the program manuals used by Medicare contractors in order to “clarify” that ...
Monday, December 9, 2013

Supreme Court to Decide Whether Inherited IRA's Protected from Creditors

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that will decide whether inherited individual retirement accounts (IRAs) are available to...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

Ambulance Driver Charged with Homicide in Death of Nursing Home Resident

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McKnight's reports that the New York Attorney's General office has indicted a former medical transport driver for criminally ne...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Debt Owed to Nursing Home Is Dischargeable in Bankruptcy Court

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A bankruptcy court rules that a nursing home cannot claim debt owed by the husband of a nursing home resident to the nursing home is nondis...
Monday, November 4, 2013

Mishandling of Nursing Home Trust Accounts a Growing Problem

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Many nursing home residents have have "resident trust funds" or "personal accounts" managed by the facility. It may be ...