Articles for Attorneys and Professionals
Note: Many of the articles discussing Medicaid were written prior to enactment of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. Be mindful of changes in the law.
- Temporary Health Care Placement Decision Maker for Adult Act (pdf - 3/23/2010)
- Life Care Planning. Powerpoint slides for program delivered to the Chattanooga CMSA, September 8, 2009. During the program, reference was made to a memo on Tennessee Advance Directives, which is listed below.
- Medicaid Estate Recovery in Georgia
- Long-Term Care Medicaid (pdf of a Powerpoint presentation for the Elder Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, February 19, 2009)
- Caregiver Voices: Issues for Caregivers and Professionals (redacted pdf of 2009 Powerpoint presentation given for local health care provider)
- Tennessee Advance Directives (pdf of handout used for a 2009 in-service presentation for local health care provider)
- Basic Long-Term Care Planning (February 2008)
- Working with Litigation Counsel in Nursing Home Neglect Cases (pdf) (November 2007)
- What Does Good Long-Term Care Look Like? (pdf) (September 2007)
- The Top Ten Nursing Home Decisions in the Past Year (June 2007)
- Care Planning Across the Continuum (pdf) (May 2007)
- What Trial Lawyers Need to Know About Special Needs Trusts and Disability Planning (pdf; presented at the ATLA Winter Convention, Honolulu, February 22, 2006)
- Personal Injury Attorney's Guide to Representing the Aged or Disabled Client (pdf; 02/06)
- Arbitration Agreements in Nursing Home Contracts (March 2005)
- Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements (pdf 8/26/04) (iPlayback)
- Ethics for Elder Law Attorneys (pdf file; Updated 8/04)
- Revisiting the Ethics of Medicaid Planning, with Timothy L. Takacs, CELA, NAELA Quarterly, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Summer 2004. (If you are a NAELA member, you can access the paper on the NAELA Web.) (This paper was awarded the NAELA John Regan Writing Award for best article published in the NAELA Quarterly in 2004.)
- The Never Ending Nightmare of HIPAA Releases (July 2004)
- The Elder-Centered Law Practice: What It Is, How to Attain It (co-authored with Timothy L. Takacs) (Eighth Annual Elder Law Symposium, North Carolina Bar Association, Cary, North Carolina, March 26, 2004) (pdf)
- Speaking Notes for ATLA's HIPAA Revisted (Update of previous article; 3/25/04)
- Finishing Strong: Protecting the Recovery After Settlement or Verdict (co-authored with Timothy L. Takacs) (pdf; 3/04) (iPlayback)
- Medicare Secondary Payer Issues (co-authored with Timothy L. Takacs) (pdf; 2/04)
- The Medicaid Application Process in Tennessee (pdf; 2004)
- Ethics 101 for Tennessee Elder Law Attorneys (pdf file; 12/03)
- Touring the Nursing Home: Issues for the Elder Law Attorney (Tennessee) (pdf file; 12/03)
- How to eat a HIPAA: Medical Records and the Elder Law Attorney (html; 9/03)
- An Overview: What is HIPAA? (pdf file; 6/03)
- Nursing Home Litigation (March 2003) (pdf)
- T. Takacs & D. McGuffey, Medicaid Planning: Can It Be Justified?: Legal and Ethical Implications of Medicaid Planning, 29 William Mitchell Law Review 111 (2002) (pdf file)
- Nursing Home Law Outline (html)
- Medicaid Law Outline (html)
- Georgia Medicaid Manual
- Elder Law Cases
- Taxation of Personal Injury Claims (html)
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