What is the name of your state? North Carolina
I live in Hawaii. I recently had to use my power of attorney regarding health care to have my mother put in a nursing home due to continuing hypertensive crises and hospitalizations, and noncompliance with blood pressure medication. Her physician says she can no longer live alone. I will be in NC in a week to clean out her apartment. She is 97, but is still able to make decisons. She does have some funds that will support her in the skilled living center, which she has been moved to. These funds will last for about a year. I also have financial power of attorney. Her attorney says the funds from anything I sell must go to her, or Medicaid will come after me for it. I don't understand this, since, she is not on Medicaid as of yet. She is able to understand and make decisions. There are some antiques which have been in the family for a long time. I cannot take them back to Hawaii. How can Medicaid control what we do as a family, before she is even eligible for Medicaid? The decision will be up to her, I do not intend in any way to sell these things without her knowledge. So, if she, in fact, says I can have these items, and I sell them, can Medicaid still come after me?
Thank you.
I live in Hawaii. I recently had to use my power of attorney regarding health care to have my mother put in a nursing home due to continuing hypertensive crises and hospitalizations, and noncompliance with blood pressure medication. Her physician says she can no longer live alone. I will be in NC in a week to clean out her apartment. She is 97, but is still able to make decisons. She does have some funds that will support her in the skilled living center, which she has been moved to. These funds will last for about a year. I also have financial power of attorney. Her attorney says the funds from anything I sell must go to her, or Medicaid will come after me for it. I don't understand this, since, she is not on Medicaid as of yet. She is able to understand and make decisions. There are some antiques which have been in the family for a long time. I cannot take them back to Hawaii. How can Medicaid control what we do as a family, before she is even eligible for Medicaid? The decision will be up to her, I do not intend in any way to sell these things without her knowledge. So, if she, in fact, says I can have these items, and I sell them, can Medicaid still come after me?
Thank you.