Joe Weldon was worried sick. A Hart County nursing home was threatening to toss out his 85-year-old mother-a retired teacher-for not paying her bill. Although he had recently gotten her qualified to receive Medicaid benefits, the cost of her interim care had run into several thousand dollars that Medicaid wouldn’t pay retroactively.
Medicaid also refused to allow Joe to pay the past due bills out of his mother’s pension and social security income. The state agency demanded that all of her income be used toward her current nursing home bills.
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