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Nursing Homes Use Guardianship as Tool to Profit

Posted on 01/07/2020
Written by Jack Halpern Leave a Comment

For some families, the golden years are turning nightmarish, thanks to state laws that some nursing homes are using to try to gain guardianship – and financial control – of their older patients. For more details, go to my blog: Nursing Homes Use Gardianship as Tool to Profit.

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Filed Under: Abuse, Nursing Homes, Public Blog Tagged With: abuse, elder abuse, financial abuse, guardianship, guardianship abuse, guardianship in New York, medicaid, MHL 81.01, nursing homes, United States Senate Committee on Aging

New data show hundreds of thousands of elder abuse cases even with huge reporting gaps

Posted on 12/04/2018
Written by Perry Shulman Leave a Comment

“Across the USA, solitude has become a deadly threat for hundreds of thousands of senior citizens living at home.” This article was in the November 28, 2018 edition of USA Today.  You may find it to be of interest.

Click here to be directed to article ———->   https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/11/27/elderly-abuse-neglect-federal-government-statistics/2113361002/

 

Best Regards,

Perry A. Shulman, CPA
Chair – Orion Elder Abuse Committee

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Filed Under: Abuse, Care Management, Elder Care, Legal, Patient Advocacy, Public Blog Tagged With: abuse, elder advocacy, elder care, elderabuse, eldercare, neglect, New data show hundreds of thousands of elder abuse cases even with huge reporting gaps, orion, perry shulman, the orion resource group

Finra Fights Elder Fraud

Posted on 12/21/2017
Written by Perry Shulman Leave a Comment

 

Starting February 5, financial brokers will have two new tools to try to stop elder financial
abuse. On that day, Finra is enacting rules to make it easier for brokers to bring an outside party into a situation where financial abuse or exploitation of an elderly person is suspected, and to allow brokers to delay payments from an account if something seems suspicious. Read more…

Finra Fights Elder Fraud
Financial Advisor Magazine
DECEMBER 12, 2017 • KAREN DEMASTERS

SUBMITTED BY:

Perry A. Shulman, CPA, Chair – Orion Resource Group Elder Abuse Advocacy Committee

 

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Filed Under: Abuse, Business, Finance, Legal, Public Blog, Uncategorized Tagged With: abuse, elder, ELDER FINANCIAL FRAUD, elder fraud, finra, orion, the orion resource group

NY Managed Long Term Care Companies (MLTC) Are Killing Elders By Refusing Mandated Services.

Posted on 05/02/2017
Written by Jack Halpern 1 Comment

NY Managed Long Term Care Companies (MLTC) Are Killing Elders By Refusing Mandated Services. – My Elder Advocate, LLC

The New York Legal Assistance Group has filed a federal class action lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York to challenge threatened and actual reductions in Medicaid-funded home care services. Named Plaintiffs and the class they seek to represent are people with disabling conditions who need home care services to remain safely in their homes and communities.

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Filed Under: Elder Care, Medicaid / Medicare, Patient Advocacy, Public Blog Tagged With: abuse, department of health, elder abuse, home care, Managed Long Term Care, Managed Long Term Care Companies, Mandated Services, medicaid, medicare, MLTC, patient advocacy

Hospital Observation Days: Dangerous To The Elderly

Posted on 12/23/2016
Written by Jack Halpern Leave a Comment

WHAT IS HOSPITAL “OUTPATIENT” OBSERVATION STATUS?

A hospital billing classification that can make Medicare patients pay for the cost of their:

Hospital stay

Hospital prescriptions

Nursing Home Care

Patients must be classified as inpatients for 3 days in the hospital in order for Medicare to pay for subsequent nursing home care.

 

OBSERVATION STATUS…

May be called “outpatient,” but it has NOTHING TO DO with where a patient receives care or the kind of care received.

IS A BILLING CODE. Hospitals use it to protect from overzealous auditors and Medicare readmission penalties. May just seem like semantics, but for Medicare beneficiaries,

IT CAN RUIN LIVES. Saddles patients with increased out-of-pocket expenses. Patients who don’t have Medicare Part B are responsible for the FULL COST of the hospitalization.

WHY DOES OBSERVATION STATUS MATTER?

Observation Status can be devastating. It can result in thousands of dollars in hospital bills and thousands more in nursing home bills after a hospital stay.

In 2012 an average hospital stay in the U.S. cost $10,400, and the median monthly cost for  a nursing home in the U.S. was almost $8,000.

The use of “outpatient” Observation Status isn’t just wrong, it can be DANGEROUS. Many patients CAN’T AFFORD their care if Medicare won’t pay. If post-hospital care in a nursing home won’t be covered by Medicare, many people GO WITHOUT that care altogether, rather than face the enormous bills. The problem is growing: the number of patients cared for under Observation Status DOUBLED from 2006 to 2014.

Take action at the BEGINNING of a hospital stay to try to stop Observation before it starts.

Ask the hospital doctor to “admit the individual as an INPATIENT” based on needed care, tests and treatments.

Ask the patient’s regular physician to CONTACT THE HOSPITAL DOCTOR to support this request.

FILE AN APPEAL with Medicare, if the patient’s nursing home coverage is denied.

FILE A COMPLAINT with the patient’s state health department, if he/she did not get a notice about “outpatient” Observation Status.

GET AN ELDER ADVOCATE!!!!!!!

 

 

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