Elder Law

Nursing Homes Receive $1.5 Billion from Medicare
Center for Medicare Advocacy, a watchdog group, is reporting that the nursing home industry is getting an extra $1.5 billion toward reimbursement, from Medicare next year. According to an article in Naples Daily News, nursing home advocates say this amount...

House Votes to Override Bush Medicare Veto
The House has just voted overwhelmingly, 383 to 41, to override the President?s veto of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act, H.R. 6331. This legislation prevents the pending 10 percent payment reduction for physicians in Medicare, enhances Medicare preventive and mental health benefits, improves and extends programs for low-income Medicare beneficiaries, and extends [...

Goodbye Medicare Part D - April 1, 2008
From the Center for Medicare Advocacy comes the following: The Social Security Administration (SSA) has begun mailing “SSA Medicare Prescription Drug Assistance Notice of Termination” letters to some beneficiaries who are currently receiving the low-income subsidy (LIS) or “Extra Help...

Medicare Vote This Week
Robert Pear of the New York Times writes about the Medicare pay cuts and the impact the failure to enact a new Medicare funding bill has had on doctors. He reports, Congress returns to work this week with Medicare high...

How Changes in Medicare Affect Patients
The Wall Street Journal reports on how the new Medicare law will directly affect Medicare beneficiaries. Anna Wilde Mathews and Jane Zhang write, The major goal of the new Medicare law passed this week was to block a scheduled cut...

Brain Injury Association, Legislative Alert
The follow is this week's legislative alert distributed by the Brain Injury Assocation of America: Dear Advocates: Numerous developments related to brain injury policy and advocacy efforts occurred this week in the nation?s capital...

Medicare
Guide to government health insurance for the elderly

Federal Transportation Equity Act of 2005
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users

Medicare Fraud
IJKG, LLC pays government $2.5 million settlement after Bayonne Medical Center overcharged for in and out patient care.

Home Hospice of North Texas
$500,000 settlement reached in Medicare fraud lawsuit.

Medicare Theft
Acculab to pay $461,000 settlement for fraud lawsuit.

Bush Administration
class action settlement ensures Medicaid beneficiaries can continue to purchase prescription drugs at minimum cost when they become eligible for Medicare.

Bank Transaction
City Bank president Mike Liner agrees to pay $25,000 fine for assisting in a cash deposit.

Investor Fraud
Company president and director Gregory William Rivers to pay $10,000 shareholder fraud settlement.