OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — A warning from the government about nursing homes and assisted living facilities taking stimulus checks from some patients.
The Federal Trade Commission says it is issuing this warning after getting several reports that nursing homes and assisted living facilities across the country were having Medicaid patients sign their stimulus checks over to them. The FTC officially saying these facilities are not allowed to do that.
The nursing homes and assisted living facilities involved claimed that the stimulus checks counted as resources. Under the rules of Medicaid resources must be used to pay for services, but the FTC says that is not the case, and it is asking families who have loved ones at these facilities to ask if this happened to them.