As this article in today’s New York Times points out, Medicare is getting the bulk of the attention in this election campaign, while more attention needs to be focused on the problem of Medicaid. “Medicaid has long conjured up images of inner-city clinics jammed with poor families. Its far less-visible role is as the only… Read More »
Posts Tagged: nursing homes
There's a Criminal Employed in Your Nursing Home
The Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a report this past March, analyzing 35,000 nursing home employee records of nursing homes against criminal records maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). 92% of nursing homes employ one or more people with a criminal conviction. Nearly half of nursing homes employed… Read More »
The Survey Says: NY a Winner in the High Cost of Long Term Care
In this survey, New York “only” comes in fifth in the country on the list of most expensive annual cost for a private room at a nursing home. The survey is using median rates, and also averaging the cost of nursing homes throughout New York State. On Long Island, the cost of a semi-private room… Read More »
The Five-Year Lookback– Frequently Asked Questions
One of the questions I am frequently asked in my elder law practice is “what is the five-year lookback?” Simply put, if you give away money or property during the five years before you apply for Medicaid, that transfer triggers a penalty period during which you are ineligible for Medicaid. How Does the Penalty Period… Read More »
A Physician’s Guide to End-of-Life Decisions (MOLST)
The denial of death is one of the strongest of human defense mechanisms. In fact, there’s an entire book about it. We don’t want to think about our end-of-life care wishes. (Although some have instructed, “Wave a martini in front of me — if I don’t respond, pull the plug.”) I don’t like to think… Read More »