Medicare includes a nursing home benefit of up to 100 days following a qualifying hospital stay. The Medicare rehabilitation benefit…
On June 5, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) amended 42 C.F.R. § 483.80 (infection control) and…
The following is a mishmash of information on various Elder Law, Special Needs Law, and Estate Planning issues. It also…
Nursing homes are intended to be places of comfort and healing. More than 1.4 million individuals live in over 15,500…
There are many types of "Plaintiff's cases." This article focuses on injury cases. Injury cases can be as simple as…
Like all insurance, long-term care insurance policies are designed to cover risk. With these policies, the risk is that you…
On December 9, 2022, the Center for Medicare Advocacy and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice announced development…
Nursing home residents have the right to who they will spend time with and how they will spend it. Specifically,…
Nursing home residents have a right to refuse unnecessary transfers within the facility. Specifically, 42 C.F.R. § 483.10(e)(7) and (8)…
Nursing home residents have a right to share a room with whomever they wish as long as both residents agree.…