Action Plan: Autism Therapy When Medicaid Stops
If your child's autism clinic stops accepting Medicaid, act fast. Learn your rights, how to find a new provider, and how to document and appeal to protect medically necessary applied behavior [...]
Autism Therapy Billing: What Parents Should Know
Due to Medicaid expansion and a rise in autism diagnoses, applied behavioral analysis (ABA) therapy has seen huge spending increases as well as fraud, making it vital for parents to ensure [...]
Special Needs Trusts and Financial Aid: FAFSA Rules
Anyone who has filled out a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) knows that there is nothing simple about the application process. Adding a special needs trust to a [...]
Before You Settle a Personal Injury Claim, Protect Benefits
A personal injury settlement can jeopardize Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Learn when to consider a first-party special needs trust, how structured settlements can be paid to [...]
TV Show Explores Senior Housing and Long-Term Care Options
A new TV show explores the emotional landscape of exploring housing options later in life: the attachments people carry, the family conversations that don't always go as planned, and the [...]
Long-Term Care Costs Are Hollowing Out Generational Wealth
A new report suggests that the long-term care system in the U.S. is failing older Americans in their final years while systematically draining the wealth of middle- and [...]
Older Adults Skipping Meals to Cover Health Care Costs
Though the crisis of rising health care costs touches Americans of all ages, older adults face a particularly difficult set of challenges. They tend to need more medical care, yet many [...]
When to Hire a Home Care Service for an Older Adult
Is it time to consider in-home care for an aging loved one? Here are some ways to tell.