What is the name of your state? Nebraska
Not 100% certain where to post this. My mother has Multiple Sclerosis and after 20+years of battling this disease it has taken it's toll on her mentally. My brothers and I have not had her declared incompetant because we just can't bring ourselves to do it. My mother has good days where she speaks clearly and is coherant but other days where she has slurred speech and doesn't clearly understand the things around her.
We are currently having issues with a new doctor who is doing acupuncture on my mother's hand. My oldest brother and I do not feel our mom made an informed decision and it is costing her. Although the acupuncture may work as a short term fix, preventative care by the nursing home would have been better in the long run and more cost effective. My mother is on medicaid and has some secondary insurance. Neither of which cover the acupuncture. Right now her bill is $240, my brother manages her bank account and there is no way she can continue on with this expense.
My question is how do we enforce our decision that this is an unnecessary expense? It is for a sore on her hand, which would not be there if the nursing home took better care of her and taken her to a doctor asap instead of sitting on their thumbs! The hospital is threatening to go to a credit agency, they could end up taking what little she has in a burial fund to pay for the expense. We don't want that to happen to her. We would pay the $240 ourselves but want the procedures to stop until it is covered by insurance. They Dr. refuses saying my mother wants this, I believe he told her it would do her hand some good and she agreed. If he told her it wouldn't work she would agree too. If the sky was purple and he said it was red she'd agree.
We don't want to take her mental competancy status away from her but need to figure out how to get some control over medical procedures.
Thank you, if this is the wrong forum I'll be happy to move my question, just guide tell me where.
Not 100% certain where to post this. My mother has Multiple Sclerosis and after 20+years of battling this disease it has taken it's toll on her mentally. My brothers and I have not had her declared incompetant because we just can't bring ourselves to do it. My mother has good days where she speaks clearly and is coherant but other days where she has slurred speech and doesn't clearly understand the things around her.
We are currently having issues with a new doctor who is doing acupuncture on my mother's hand. My oldest brother and I do not feel our mom made an informed decision and it is costing her. Although the acupuncture may work as a short term fix, preventative care by the nursing home would have been better in the long run and more cost effective. My mother is on medicaid and has some secondary insurance. Neither of which cover the acupuncture. Right now her bill is $240, my brother manages her bank account and there is no way she can continue on with this expense.
My question is how do we enforce our decision that this is an unnecessary expense? It is for a sore on her hand, which would not be there if the nursing home took better care of her and taken her to a doctor asap instead of sitting on their thumbs! The hospital is threatening to go to a credit agency, they could end up taking what little she has in a burial fund to pay for the expense. We don't want that to happen to her. We would pay the $240 ourselves but want the procedures to stop until it is covered by insurance. They Dr. refuses saying my mother wants this, I believe he told her it would do her hand some good and she agreed. If he told her it wouldn't work she would agree too. If the sky was purple and he said it was red she'd agree.
We don't want to take her mental competancy status away from her but need to figure out how to get some control over medical procedures.
Thank you, if this is the wrong forum I'll be happy to move my question, just guide tell me where.