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• “Medicare Benefit for Skilled Nursing Can Continue After ‘Plateau’. It is commonly
believed, but wrong, that nursing home residents lose the post-hospitalization
rehabilitation or skilled nursing care provided by Medicare and supplemental carriers
once a physician decides that they have ‘plateaued’,” i.e. when their condition no longer
improves as the result of the care or therapy. In fact, federal law allows such subsidies
to continue if it can be shown that, without continuing therapies, the patient’s condition
is likely to regress. This has been vital to many of our clients.
Claire Bartholome has recently joined the Law Office of William J. Brisk as an attorney specializing
in the development of estate plans, support for litigation, and elder law. Most recently, Claire
worked as the Manager of Regulatory Affairs for Harvard Catalyst, an NIH funded entity within
Harvard Medical School, where she was responsible for coordinating standards and policies
across the Harvard-affiliated medical centers to facilitate multi-institutional research. Prior to her
work at Harvard, Claire spent five years in the Public, Government,
The Complete and Regulatory
All-in-One Affairs Division
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of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, where she researched Federal and State laws and
regulations to assess their impact
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Claire is an alumna of Mount Holyoke College, and recently received her law degree from Suffolk
• Decide if at-home care is the right choice for you and your loved ones
University Law School, with a concentration in Health Law, where she was the Lead Articles Editor
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and currently lives in Chelsea. She and her partner, attorney Meg DeMarco, have plans
caregivers, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and hospice to marry
this summer.
• Determine the costs of senior care options and find helpful support networks
"This is not just another book about caring for aging parents. It's a great reference you'll use
again and again. Stages doesn't shy away from the hard questions. Rather, it shows you how
to confront them."? SUZANNE MINTZ, President/CEO, National Family Caregivers
Association