As many of my readers and clients know, continuing legal education and keeping up-to-date on legal change is important to me and more specially to my clients who benefit by it. I regularly attend meetings of the Massachusetts branch of the National Academy of Elder...
Medicare and Medicaid
Hooray! It’s a Beginning: Medicare Now Covers Medically Necessary Dental Care
Effective January 1, 2023 Medicare coverage is expanded to include “medically necessary dental service.” This change allows people with life-threatening conditions to receive dental care and operations related to conditions approved by CMS. The key to understanding...
Paying for an Assisted living facility with Medicare?
The perfect candidate for an Assisted Living facility is usually an older adult who needs assistance, and support for activities of daily living, but is still independent. They do not require the full-time skilled nursing offered by skilled nursing facilities. But...
Jimmo v. Sebelius
JUST BECAUSE “EVERYONE” SAYS THAT MEDICARE PAYMENTS FOR REHABILITATION STOP WHEN THE PATIENT’S CONDITION “PLATEAUS” DOESN’T MAKE THAT TRUE. Many of our clients begin post-hospitalization therapies in nursing homes or rehabilitation centers thankful that Medicare will...
A Difficult Client
Several years ago we met with “Anita,” a woman in her mid-sixties whose husband, Andy, a decade or so older than Anita, had been diagnosed with mid-stage dementia and, therefore, had recently retired as a cab driver. At the time, Anita was quite adamant that,...