The Medicaid easements, among other things, allow applicants to attest to most elements of eligibility, including income and resource levels. Applicants for chronic care (nursing home) coverage are ordinarily required to submit 60 months of financial statements. During the COVID-19 public health eme...
"New York’s decision to pull out the hospital-based deaths was not based on standard practice," she said, noting that federal rules for reporting Covid nursing home deaths require that states include off-site deaths in hospitals. New York’s unorthodox exclusion of hospital deaths was always...