Nursing Home resident on Medicaid gets second chance to win her bid for a medically necessary power wheelchair
When an individual resides in a nursing home and receives Medicaid benefits, the facility is paid an all-encompassing per diem rate which is designed to cover all of the costs of medically necessary services that the facility provides to the resident. There are times that a facility declines to provide some specialty service or equipment because of its extra cost, or the facility seeks...