Nursing Home Fees: Court To Decide If Reasonable
Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession
Quick Summary: The family had the right to sue the nursing home for a ruling whether the charges were reasonable, because the contract they signed with the nursing home did not specify the items or services for which the family would be responsible for the resident's care.
The contract also did not specify the items or the services for which the nursing home could charge or indicate specifically how much it could charge. The District Court of Appeal of Florida ruled a court has jurisdiction to hear a family's lawsuit against a nursing home to ascertain if the charges are reasonable and fair.
Greenfield v. Nursing Home, 705 So. 2d 926 (Fla. App., 1997).