Webinar Recorded: April 26, 2019
Presented by Jill Roamer, JD, ElderCounsel, LLC
Duration: 30 minutes
Watch ElderCounsel’s 30-minute review of important news updates in the areas of Medicaid planning, special needs planning and veterans pension planning from across the country.
Agenda:
- Medicaid applicant wins a reduction in penalty period for payments made to nursing home
- Medicare observation status lawsuit update
- Nursing home arbitration clause voided due to language barrier
- Non-clients lack standing to sue attorney for failing to create trust
- Promissory note payments in unequal amounts deemed available asset for Medicaid applicant
- Medicaid applicant penalized for transfers because evidence to rebut presumption was not presented
- Assaults on elderly men drastically increase
- Assisted suicide law approved in New Jersey
- Medicaid updates
a. Tennessee one step closer to Medicaid block grants
b. Alaska one step closer to Medicaid block grants
c. Idaho enacts Medicaid expansion; seeks work requirements
d. North Carolina’s Medicaid expansion bill - Feel Good Friday
a. New theme park to open next year that is ultra-accessible
b. 66-year old man teaches himself to play trumpet so he can perform taps