{"id":5383,"date":"2016-12-23T08:52:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T13:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2016-12-23T08:52:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T13:52:21","slug":"new-rules-to-limit-medi-cal-death-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5383","title":{"rendered":"New Rules to Limit Medi-Cal \u2018Death Fees\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Emily Bazar for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Six months after her mother died in 2014, Karen Craig opened her mailbox to find a bill for $9,530.06.<\/p>\n<p>It came from Medi-Cal, the state\u2019s version of the Medicaid program for low-income people, which was seeking repayment for her mother\u2019s medical care even though she had used her coverage just once, for a routine wellness exam. (Her mother\u2019s medical costs were primarily covered by Medicare, the federal program for seniors, Craig says.) <a href=\"http:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/new-rules-to-limit-medi-cal-death-fees\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=39732455&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--qaSypp6n7zrnRdQJmCqaj663maADvb3Jdt_J_X_ViaoGSr5UxEYNuszuphB8MoDtrSuS_SNC1yZXW_xCXf96hnlwDsA&amp;_hsmi=39732455\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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