Thread: My mom died now the nursing home wants me to pay her bills

I was wondering if I'm liable for them?

She passed on April 24th, and was in hospice and 24 hour care.
I never paid any bills for her, but got sent this one today.
Long story short, can they really come after me to pay for her care the 3 weeks in April she was alive?
The bill was made out to her, but forwarded to me.
TIA

It depends on if you inherited assets from her estate and I am sure laws vary from state to state. I am sorry for the loss of your Mother.

((faithfully)) I am so sorry to hear of your Mom's passing. Slance & dback gave you great advice but I am so sorry that you have to deal with this.

First off, I'm so sorry about your mother passing away. When my mother passed away 5 years ago (not in a nursing home) I received many bills that needed to be dealt with. Your best bet is to get an attorney...I did. Everything should come out of your mother's estate. The only thing I paid for out of my pocket but was reimbursed for by her estate was the retainer fee for my attorney. If you don't know of any estate attorney's in your area call the bar association in your area....they'll be able to direct you to someone that is how I found mine. If I remember correctly I think my retainer fee was somewhere around $1,500. All of which I received back after my mother's estate was settled. You should also (if needed) be reimbursed for travel i.e. to/from attorney's office, picking up paperwork, getting copies done, movers (if needed), storage. All of which I did get back when I had to pay out of pocket. Good luck. Again, I'm so sorry to hear about your mom passing away.

well, I guess that they feel like someone should pay the bills, and that they are going to leave it to you to figure it out. contact an attorney. a lot of times parents put all their belongings in their children's name so that they will be eligible for medicare. if that is what indeed happened, you might find yourself owing her medical bills.

Sorry about you Mom, it is hard enough having to deal with losing someone, But having to sort all of this out just makes the hurt never go away!
It will depend on if she was having Medicare pay for her nursing home stay or a private insurance. Medicare will want to be reimbursed and will come after money any way they can get it. It sounds like a bad deal but they do need to be reimbursed. If your Mother had any assets they will need to be liquidated and her stay paid for. Please do not try to hide anything from them, they will find out about it and you will just have to pay it back. Medicare has a "look back" period of 5 years so they will look up any transactions she made to liquify her assets in the last 5 years. We jsut went through all of this about a month ago and it is a very complicated thing to deal with, you should call an attorney and get some help. PM me if you have any specific questions, I have all of the paperwork still from the seminar we went to. GOOD LUCK and again... SORRY!!!!

s: nothing to add to the above advice.... just wanted to express my condolances on the loss of your mom.

Thank you everyone for your kind words and advice. I'm going to call a lawyer tomorrow.