The New York State Department of Health (DOH) is planning to radically change how it calculates Medicaid nursing home reimbursements. DOH’s new method will alter the way the state calculates the average Case Mix Index (CMI) of Medicaid nursing home residents in order to save the Medicaid program $246 million, half of which will come […]
Update: 50-state Filial Responsibility Laws Survey
This past August, we shared some information on our blog about the importance of knowing your state’s Filial Responsibility laws (or lack thereof) and the potential impact of using these laws to help with Medicaid collection issues. To help with your efforts, this chart includes the filial responsibility laws for those states that have them, […]
Filial Responsibility Laws and Long-Term Care
Known as “filial responsibility laws,” many states (more than half) have long-standing statutes in place that hold an adult child responsible for the financial support of an indigent parent. In most states, these statutes have been largely ignored, especially since the launch of the Medicaid and Medicare programs in the 1960s. However, as the senior […]
Facilities Turn to Filial Responsibility Statutes
As the populations of long-term care facilities grow at a rate faster than the average long-term care resident’s ability to pay for the care they receive, facilities are taking a huge hit to their bottom line. This has forced some long-term care facilities to close their doors after operating at a loss, which can be […]
Alabama Adopts the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act
In 2018, Alabama joined approximately 17 other states in adopting the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act (“UVTA”) in place of the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act (“UFTA”). The UVTA applies to any transactions occurring on or after January 1, 2019, while the UFTA will apply to any transactions before that date. The UVTA brings a few notable […]
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