Applying for Medicaid benefits, particularly long-term care benefits, can be difficult and confusing. Yet, it is a necessary evil for many who rely on Medicaid to ensure that they can afford the room, board, care, and services…
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/ Administrative Law, Health
Too often creditors are faced with accounts that are seemingly uncollectable. If the debtor had money on hand to pay, presumably they would not have incurred the debt at all, right? Especially in the realm of medical debt, and…
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/ Civil Remedies, Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Residential
Traditional Medicare (Parts A and B) and Medicare Advantage (Part C, including additional vision, dental, and hearing benefits) plans aim to provide comprehensive medical benefits to American Seniors and adults with…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Insurance
A nursing facility that participates in the Medicaid or Medicare programs may not require a third party to guarantee payment for a resident’s admission or continued stay. However, facilities are allowed to require a resident…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Health, Insurance
Attorneys General from 20 states asked a federal judge to grant a temporary injunction halting implementation of changes to new rules affecting minimum nursing home staffing requirements announced by the Centers for Medicare and…
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/ Administrative Law, Health
As I cracked open a brand-new calendar for 2025, I couldn’t help but think what a pivotal moment this really is—we’re twenty-five years into what still feels to me like a new century, and I’m nearing fifty trips around the sun…
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/ Health, Insurance, Law Practice Products & Services, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
Medicaid is the primary payer for 63% of nursing facility residents, propping up a large part of the industry’s funding…
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/ Health, Insurance
Leading Age, a community of nonprofit aging service providers, including long-term care organizations and hospices, is seeking congressional action before the swearing in of the incoming 119th Congress (on January 3, 2025),…
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/ Health, Immigration Law, Nonprofit Law
Returning to work after maternity leave at the start of a global pandemic, = new fear unlocked. Said completely unprecedented pandemic, plus a 3-month-old, a 5-year-old who would now also become my part-time co-worker &…
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Last September I was on a Sandia Mountain hike with a friend who had not hiked this, or any other, mountain in over a decade. Because I like this person and did not want him to collapse in a place where mountain rescues are…
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“Poor, disabled, and otherwise disadvantaged Tennesseans should not require luck, perseverance, or zealous lawyering to receive healthcare benefits they are entitled to under the law.” - Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr., United States…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health
Much of the southeast of the United States is still recovering from devastating hurricanes (Helene and Milton) that impacted the region in the past month, affecting thousands of people. Citizens affected by the damage caused by…
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/ Administrative Law, Health
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In 2024, an estimated 310,720 women will receive an invasive breast cancer diagnosis in the U.S., and 16% will be in women younger than 50 years of age. See Breast Cancer Facts and…
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/ Health, Labor & Employment Law, Law Practice Products & Services
I had always planned to attend law school, but life events delayed my entry until my kids had both started high school. I was 43 years old. Fortunately, my very supportive law school allowed me to stretch the coursework over…
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/ Health, Law Practice Products & Services
I have recently begun experimenting with using AI, which stands for “Artificial Intelligence”, to help me in my day-to-day work. I will explain how I use it and how I don’t use it, but first two things..…
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/ Civil Procedure, Law Practice Products & Services, Science, Computers, & Technology
