(November 12, 2020 at 6:26 pm)brewer Wrote:(November 12, 2020 at 3:17 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Then the facility dad was in owes us at least $5K. He was on Medicare. And yes, they did look into how much he had in liquid assets. He wasn't forced to sell his property but money in savings was tapped.
Medicare does not pay for long term nursing home confinement. They needed the spend down to qualify for medicaid. We had to do the same thing for my grandmother. She had to sell her house.
He was in for a period of rehab and then went home. I'm not sure how long "long term" is. The term was around a month.