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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 3821357" data-attributes="member: 58386">From the CBO: Current Medicaid spending nursing home patients 42% of it&#039;s budget. However it also projects Medicaid spending to climbing from the current 389 billion to 650 billion by 2017 with the percentage going to care for elderly both at home and in a managed care facility expected to climb significantly.In addition with the GOP proposing major Medicaid funding cuts in order to offset deficits ,some states in response are saying that they have ancient but still applicable laws on their books that can require other family members&nbsp; to assume responsibility for any uncovered bills that family member may incurred while in that nursing home.In fact when we had to put our mother in a nursing home the admissions manager presented my brother with a cleverly crafted form that if he had signed he would have agreed to accept financial responsibility for her nursing home bill when her own funds ran out. Why? Medicaid reimbursements are not as high as what they could get from our mother or my brother if he had signed. Knowing that at that time such an action was banned by federal law he simply handed her a copy of the law and the matter was immediately dropped. But no one knows for certain how much longer the ban will be in place.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 3821357, member: 58386"] From the CBO: Current Medicaid spending nursing home patients 42% of it's budget. However it also projects Medicaid spending to climbing from the current 389 billion to 650 billion by 2017 with the percentage going to care for elderly both at home and in a managed care facility expected to climb significantly. In addition with the GOP proposing major Medicaid funding cuts in order to offset deficits ,some states in response are saying that they have ancient but still applicable laws on their books that can require other family members to assume responsibility for any uncovered bills that family member may incurred while in that nursing home. In fact when we had to put our mother in a nursing home the admissions manager presented my brother with a cleverly crafted form that if he had signed he would have agreed to accept financial responsibility for her nursing home bill when her own funds ran out. Why? Medicaid reimbursements are not as high as what they could get from our mother or my brother if he had signed. Knowing that at that time such an action was banned by federal law he simply handed her a copy of the law and the matter was immediately dropped. But no one knows for certain how much longer the ban will be in place. [/QUOTE]

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