Medicare and Medicaid

This is an important question as his mom has Medicaid and Medicare. How long has the facility been certified? Certification of the facility will ensure that the owners are following the laws that govern operators of long-term care facilities and that the facility is visited often to confirm that all that…

dress or turn the knob on her kitchen stove. She is keenly alert, but she may wind up in a nursing home anyway, at a tab of $60,000 a year, because there is no way she can live alone. The widow and her grown children are shocked to discover that Medicare won't pay for her care in a nursing home. Only when she impoverishes herself,…

Healthcare: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security insurance Elder adults how are lucky enough to have money saved to their account or through a pension fund to become retired. Many people have money placed for Medicaid, Medicare, or a social security income. The top two are Medicare and Medicaid which were originally funding by the government as a means of assistance. Medicaid is a state and federal program that provides health coverage if you have a very low income (Crosta, p. 6). In order to…

to decrease federal Medicaid spending. “The legislation projected to achieve gross federal Medicaid savings of $17 billion over the first five years and $61.4 billion over the following ten years” (Schneider, 1997). The goal of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 was to assist in the reduction of the federal budget by 2002. Accompanying these spending reductions, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 also included provisions that signified the most impactful set of changes in Medicaid since 1991,…

Introduction It is very important that hospital adheres to the guidelines that stipulated that if patients return to the hospital for after being treated for 30 days there be a penalty of some sort. This guideline came about after the implementation of the affordable care in 2010. Before the implementation of the affordable care act, there were over 20% of readmission to the hospitals 30 days after being discharged (Rice, 2015). These penalties can prove to be very costly, as a result, hospitals…

is the fact that a lot people are unaware of the existence of long term care insurance or believe that Medicare will pay for long term care, when in fact, Medicare only cover ‘medical necessary long term care,’ but for the most part, will only cover acute episodes. Others, believe that if Medicare will not cover long term care, Medicaid will; Medicaid varies state to state, and usually, if Medicaid cover long term care, individuals need to prove that they cannot perform ADLs independently. Some…

My choice is where my grandmother is; she is 88 and has been in the nursing home for 3 years now. The nursing home is about 2 miles out of town, which is easy to get to, it’s on a main highway they keep fairly clean. My mother talked to her siblings when the decision to put grandma in the nursing home. My mother was in her life that she couldn’t and wouldn’t get up and around. So the decision to put her in a nursing home was a decision that wasn’t made easy. None of the siblings wanted to deal…

it was over 50 years ago when Medicare was signed into law. Since that time, the United States government has invested billions of dollars into heath care every year. The Medicare program has led to better health care, but has also created the need for constant re-examination and revision. This is due to the continuous changes in health care and the increasing population of older Americans. Despite the on-going changes in health and medicine, the goal of Medicare has stayed the same--to…

milestones occurs at age 65, when we become eligible for Medicare. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services [CMS] (n.d.), Medicare is defined as, “the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, certain younger people with disabilities, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, sometimes called ESRD).” The following will focus on the Medicare decision-making experience, including a general…

Eastmont Towers Community is a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) here in Lincoln, Nebraska. Eastmont is a not-for-profit Christian community who strive to provide exceptional services covering all aspects of senior care while promoting diversity and being responsible stewards to residence, their families and the community. Seniors age sixty-two and older can choose from one of the following living options: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Long-Term Care, Palliative Care and…