NAELA Journal Volume 19 Issue 2 e-Issue
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NAELA Journal Volume 19 Issue 2 e-Issue
By Jim Schuster, CELA
Medicaid estate recovery (MER) has been part of the Medicaid program since its inception in 1965. Today, our country faces profound economic challenges, and the harm MER does to poor and working communities has increasingly come into question.
By Shery Ramezanian, J.D., MBA, Andrea Morton, and Carol Brown
Despite Medicare’s prevalence, attorneys negotiating third-party settlements on behalf of their older clients may be unaware that such settlements are subject to Medicare’s statutory reimbursement right or of the steep penalties for noncompliance.
By Bruce A. Brightwell, Esq.
In June 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that an individual can bring a cause of action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a government-owned nursing home for violations of the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act (FNHRA).
By Lawrence A. Frolik, Fellow
Why, you ask, am I reviewing a mystery book for readers of the NAELA Journal? Because the amateur detectives, the solvers of the murders, could be your clients.