On August 27th, 2012 — two weeks after she died, and after nine months of trying — the State of Florida Department of Children and Families finally approved my mother’s application for Medicaid. On the afternoon of September 10th, I sent this email to my attorney, Steve Phillips, of Pincus & Currier, LLP: Steve, After […]
Michelle Cofano from the Department of Elder Affairs replied to my earlier email with: Now that the Level of Care determination is completed, the Department of Children and Families will continue the process of financial approval. Update: I replied to her on Thursday, August 9th, 2012 at 8:10 AM PDT with the following message: Dear […]
True to her word, Michelle Cofano <Cofanom@elderaffairs.org> from the Florida Department of Elder Affairs emailed me today to confirm that she submitted her “Level of Care” report: Hey David, I just wanted to let you know I personally faxed the Level of Care this afternoon to the nursing home and I hand delivered the Level […]
Mom’s friend from church called this afternoon. She began by asking if I had talked to anyone at Woodland Terrace lately. I told her that I called them or they called me just about every day. She wanted to know if I knew anything about progress with mom’s application for Medicaid because the night nurse […]
This morning I received a phone call from Michelle Cofano from the Florida Department of Elder Affairs. 1 She was calling to let me know that she does Medicaid eligibility approval, which is apparently another way of saying that she is responsible for submitting the “level of care” data to the state. (Yes, this is […]
Early this morning Shelly from Woodland Terrace responded to my sister’s email from last night: Yes, all the information was forwarded on 7/23/12. I re-faxed the consents and 3008 again this morning. We are still waiting on the Level of Care and will forward that once received. Shelly (My sister replied with, “Thank you,” about […]
My sister sent this email to both me and to Shelly Sparace 1 at Woodland Terrace: Hi, David and Shelly. I received a notice in my email that linked to this letter from Medicaid 2. Shelly, have these forms been sent? Attached was a 2.2MB PDF named “Medicaid Letter 8.7.2012”. It is another perfect example […]
I just received a call from Shelly Sparace at Woodland Terrace. She asked how I was doing and I said that everything was going well aside from spending the last nine months dealing with the most horrible, traumatic thing that has ever happened to my family. She said she understood and sounded very sympathetic. She […]