28th Connecticut Medicaid and Medicare Planning Update 2019 Seminar
Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 – 11:45 am
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 4:40 pm
Medicare: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
T. Berthelot
Medicare basics
Medicare coverage
Medicare Advantage
Hot topics
Important Developments in Health Care,
Long Term Care, and Payment Schemes
G Bickford
Deficit Reduction Act regulations
Annuities: Update
Application and submission rules
Medicaid: Long-Term Care Planning,
Estate Planning and Asset Transfers
G. Bickford
History of Connecticut Medicaid program
Eligibility criteria
Covered services
Spousal impoverishment rules
Transfer of asset rules
Penalties and disqualification periods,
transferee liability, exceptions
Financial Planning for the Elderly and Disabled
G. Bickford
Asset protection: estate planning considerations
Exempt or excluded assets
Using trucks and advanced planning techniques
New legislative changes and potential problems
New and Expanded Restrictions on Medicaid Planning
G. Bickford
Viability of asset transfers
Use of trusts
Use of annuities
Viability of Medicaid planning
Looking Ahead: What’s Visible on the Horizon?
G. Bickford
Recovery?
Third party liability
Home care issues
Retroactive eligibility for home care
Credits
Accountants
8.0 CPE Hours
Attorneys
6.5 Connecticut CLE Hours
6.66 Maine CLE Hours
6.5 New Hampshire CLE Hours
8.0 New Jersey CLE Hours
8.0 New York CLE Hours
8.0 Rhode Island CLE Hours
6.5 Vermont CLE Hours
Certified Financial Planners
8.0 Continuing Ed. Hours
Continuing Education Credit Information
This course is open to the public and offers accountants 8.0 intermediate-level CPE hours in the area of taxes. HalfMoon Education Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.NASBARegistry.org. Complaints can also be directed to Doug Chapman at doug@halfmoonseminars.org. Sponsor No. 103015. Accountants attended this course should have a basic knowledge of health care planning, and no advance preparation is recommended.
This course is designed to qualify for 6.5 CLE hours for Connecticut and New Hampshire attorneys. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Connecticut and New Hampshire. This course is approved for 6.66 hours for Maine attorneys and 8.0 Rhode Island CLE hours for attorneys.
HalfMoon Education is certified by the New York State CLE Board as an Accredited Provider of CLE programs*. This traditional format course offers 8.0 Areas of Professional Practice CLE hours, which are appropriate for new and experienced attorneys.
Halfmoon Education Inc. is a New Jersey CLE Service Provider (No. 164), and this course offers 8.0 CLE hours to New Jersey attorneys.
HalfMoon Education Inc. is an approved Vermont CLE provider for attorneys. This course offers 6.5 CLE hours.
The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. has granted 8.0 hours of continuing education credit.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
*HalfMoon Education will provide financial hardship assistance to New York attorneys who wish to attend this event. Contact Doug Chapman at doug@halfmoonseminars.org for details.
Speakers
Terry Berthelot
University of Connecticut, Storrs-Mansfield, CTMs. Berthelot is an assistant professor in residence of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is also the director of the Aging Research Interest Group. Her research and advocacy is primarily about access to healthcare for people who are over 65 and for people with disabilities. She earned her Masters degree in social work from Syracuse University, after which she designed, implemented, and then coordinated a Joint Commission accredited hospice program in the Mississippi delta. Finding herself fascinated by the legal and ethical questions surrounding death and dying, Ms. Berthelot pursued her law degree at the University of Mississippi. After graduating, cum laude, Ms. Berthelot joined the Center for Medicare Advocacy, a national not-for-profit law firm. As a senior attorney, Ms. Berthelot oversaw the Center’s advocacy efforts. She also provided legal advice and representation to Medicare beneficiaries, wrote articles for national publications, produced educational materials, engaged in educational outreach activities, and was a contributing author to the Medicare Handbook. Ms. Berthelot is a former chair of the steering committee for the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys’ Health Care Section and she is the former Connecticut liaison for National Healthcare Decisions Day. She is currently a member of the Mansfield Town Council.
George B. Bickford
Law Offices of George B. Bickford, East Granby, CTMr. Bickford is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Connecticut School of Law. From 1974 through 1981 he was employed by Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. During his last three years there he was director of the Senior Citizens Law Project covering North Central Connecticut. From January 1982 through October 1992 Mr. Bickford was a partner in the firm of Weed & Bickford (formerly Weed, Kerrigan & Bickford), engaged in the general practice of law. On November 1, 1992 he opened the Law Offices of George B. Bickford as a sole practitioner in East Granby, Connecticut and, as of July 1, 2009, the firm is known as the Law Offices of George B. Bickford, LLC. The office consists of two attorneys and a highly trained paralegal staff concentrating in elder law issues. For many years Mr. Bickford has been a guest speaker before bar, medical, social service and public groups on the topics of Social Security, Medicaid and estate planning for the elderly with long-term medical needs, the area in which he currently limits his practice. Mr. Bickford was a member of the Board of Directors of the Alzheimers Association Connecticut Chapter for many years, and he continues to provide them counsel and assistance. He is also a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the Executive Committee of the Elder Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association.