Your question involves estate planning. You need to consult with an attorney who specializes in estate planning to determine your options and the consequences, tax and otherwise, of a transfer of your property to your children. It takes several years after the transfer has been made for the government to consider the property to be out of your estate if you receive any government medical assistance. You should get some good legal advice ASAP.
The cost of living in general is rising and the US economy is always facing inflation slowly. Medical costs are also rising so in general the costs of a nursing home will also rise.
Jeffrey A. Rhoades has written: 'Expenses and sources of payment for nursing home residents, 1996 (AHRQ pub)' 'Health insurance status of the civilian noninstitutionalized population' -- subject(s): Cost of Medical care, Health Insurance, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (U.S.), Statistics 'Nursing home expenses, 1987 and 1996' -- subject(s): Costs, Nursing home care, Nursing homes, Statistics
Guessing your looking for a test answer... Prospective payment systems, created in 1983, eliminated cost based reimbursement. page 16 in fundamentals of nursing 7th edition.
A deferred payments is to make the payment at a later date. From time to time a creditor may ask if you would like to skip a payment. They would charge you about $50 and move the payment or defer it to the end of the loan. This is not to your advantage. It costs you up front and costs you interest.
Long Term Nursing care is the assistance you may get when you can no longer take care of yourself. It can either be enrolling in a nursing home, or a private home care. As for the costs, it differs on your coverage. You may opt to check out the premium costs online as well
Payment protection usually costs around 1% to 2% of whatever is charged on the credit card. These costs are used when you are unable to pay your credit card payments.
There are many things you can do to lower the costs of running and operating your nursing home. Swapping out old appliances for energy efficient ones is a simple, yet cost-saving start.
You can find online prices of nursing homes any where out there. Such as this one www.ultratrust.com/protect-assets-nursing-home-costs.html It says that it is tax free as well.
A nursing home may be certified by Medicare or Medicaid
In most places the nursing home would first need to take you to court to receive a judgement allowing them to take your home in partial payment for the cost of nursing home services. If they are in the process of doing that, you need to see a lawyer. As far as I know, in Texas, a person's home cannot be taken to pay a commercial debt. However, medicade requires a person going into a nursing home sell all their property, including their home and pay the nursing home costs out of their estate until all that remains is something like $2000 before medicade will begin covering nursing home expenses.
It is likely that they can. If you signed the paperwork, I'll bet it included responsibility for the costs and debts.
Well there is no yearly fee, pre-payment charges, loan documentation penalties, or closing costs.