Careful, Thoughtful Drafting Essential In Estate Planning
On April 5, 2004, Ms. Ann Dunn Aldrich wrote her Will on an “E–Z Legal Form.” In Article III, entitled ...
Medicare Seniors Like ObamaCare’s Team Approach
As the U.S. health care system moves away from fee-for-service medicine to more accountable care that uses a team of ...
A Few Special Needs Trust Planning Tips: Planning for Children with Disabilities
Caring for a child with Special Needs can be a challenging responsibility. There are many steps that you must take ...
Where there’s a will, there’s a way
Estate planning is not just for the rich. If you don’t make arrangements for what will happen after you are ...
State’s Medicaid program paid cheating dentists for questionable billings: report
A new federal report will be released Wednesday showing that shady dentists and orthodontists billed the state’s Medicaid program for ...
Surgeon bills Medicare $85M for ‘procedures he never performed’
Dr. Syed Imran Ahmed He’s the Bernie Madoff of bariatric surgery. A fat-cat Long Island Gold Coast surgeon billed Medicare ...
Special Needs Trust and Planning for Children with Disabilities
If an individual with special needs depends on you for financial resources, your estate plan should address how that support ...
Texting Your Will…Will it be Upheld?
We do a lot of things on our smartphones: we shop, text, bank, post pictures, order food, find directions, get ...
Bronx pharmacy owners, druggist busted in $10 million AIDS Medicaid scam
The first of two suspects was arrested at the 184th Street Pharmacy. The Bronx pharmacist committed Medicaid fraud by doling ...
Common Probate Issues in New York
When a person dies leaving a Will behind, the legal process that takes place afterwards is called probate. Probate determines ...
Home-health care could take hit when pay goes up
Salaries of city-based health aides will increase Saturday from $10.93 to $14.09 as mandated by the state’s 2011 Medicaid reforms, ...
A Few Estate Planning Lessons Learned From Philip Seymour Hoffman
A Few Estate Planning Lessons Learned From Philip Seymour Hoffman Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman unexpectedly passed away at age ...
How to Spot Medical Billing Errors
How to Spot Medical Billing Errors.Blame it on human error, the complexity of billing codes, or unscrupulous medical professionals, but ...
Top 5 Mistakes in Estate Planning
Regardless of your age or financial situation, estate planning, the process of preparing for the transfer of wealth upon decease, ...
Five Top Reasons for Medicaid Fraud Investigation
Medicaid is a federal and state health coverage program that provides health care to people who are unable to pay ...
Medicaid Fraud: Who’s in on the Act and How They’re Getting Away With It
A single mom with five kids living in Brooklyn with no income on record and struggling to make ends meet ...
Five Estate Planning Lessons From The Paul Walker Estate
Paul William Walker IV was the star of the Fast & Furious movies, until his unfortunate — and ironic — ...
Freeing Workers From the Insurance Trap
The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Tuesday that the Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of full-time workers by ...
Doctors Abusing Medicare Face Fines and Expulsion
Marilyn B. Tavenner, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, testifying on Capitol Hill last fall. WASHINGTON ...
Some States Are Moving to Loosen Their Estate Taxes
FOR most of the United States, the estate tax is now something only the very wealthy have to plan for ...
