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The Medicaid Program Can and Should Provide Better Care for Persons With Dementia

6/28/2024  

Persons with dementia make up about 60% of nursing home long-term care residents. Although nursing homes often are not appropriate care settings for ambulatory dementia patients, many are placed there out of financial necessity.

Journal Article

Recent Pro-Beneficiary Changes to Medicare Policy

6/8/2024  

We spend a considerable amount of our time trying to address barriers to care and other problems faced by Medicare beneficiaries. Sometimes, we need to stop and celebrate the successes.

News Article

Must Sole Benefit Trusts Contain Payback Provisions

6/5/2024  

A sole benefit trust (SBT) is a powerful but misunderstood tool in the Medicaid planning toolbox.

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NAELA Member Uses FOIA to Help Change Maine’s Transfer Penalty Divisor

4/15/2024  

What happens when the law needs to be updated and you don’t have the resources to effectuate change? One NAELA member may have the answer.

News Article

Supports and Services for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

2/15/2024  

Supporting the supporter is the best work of an elder law attorney. It’s important to stay knowledgeable about financial programs that can add to the comfort and security of our elder law clients and their families.

News Article

Sources of Authority in Medicaid Appeals

2/15/2024  

A Medicaid appeal, while being an appeal of an administrative agency’s decision, often involves not questions of fact, but rather, issues of law: Does the agency’s action comply with federal requirements?

News Article

Resolving Health Care Reimbursement Obligations for Medicare Parts A and B

12/29/2023  

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.

Journal Article

Medicaid Estate Recovery

12/29/2023  

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.

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