Advance Directive for Health Care and POLST
The Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care and the POLST (Physician’s Order for Life Sustaining Treatment) are both health care proxy forms. This blog will
The Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care and the POLST (Physician’s Order for Life Sustaining Treatment) are both health care proxy forms. This blog will
Congress passed the Special Needs Trust Fairness Act as a provision of the 21st Century Cures Act. This new law cured a decades old injustice toward special
In one of the biggest rule changes regarding skilled nursing facilities since 1991, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in late September
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