Explaining the Law and Providing Self-Help Information for Low-Income Iowans
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Control Over Health Care Decisions
Getting the Health Care Services You Need
Has your insurance company, Medicare or Medicaid denied you help? You don?t have to take no for an answer.
By: Iowa Legal Aid
Getting Medical Assistance
Many people need help paying for health care. Iowa has several programs that may help you.
By: Iowa Legal Aid
Getting Emergency Medical Care
Hospitals must treat you - even if you don?t have insurance - when you have an emergency condition or are a woman in active labor. Hospitals must treat your medical emergency until you become stable. The hospital may bill you later, but it cannot turn you away from emergency care.
By: Iowa Legal Aid
Are Your Legal Affairs in Order?
Putting your legal affairs in order is important for a number of reasons. Some of the more important issues that Iowans, and especially older Iowans, should consider involve powers of attorney, living wills, and estate and Medicaid planning.
By: Legal Hotline for Older Iowans
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What Is a Living Will?
A living will is a written document authorizing health care providers to withhold or withdraw life sustaining procedures in certain cases. A life-sustaining procedure is any medical procedure, treatment or intervention which utilizes mechanical or artificial means to sustain, restore, or supplant a spontaneous vital function, and which serves only to prolong the dying process.
By: Legal Hotline for Older Iowans
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"Living Will" Form A form you can print out and use to prepare your own Declaration Relating to Use of Life-Sustaining Procedures or "Living Will."
By: Legal Hotline for Older Iowans
What is a "Durable Health Care Power of Attorney?"
A Durable Health Care Power of Attorney is a legal document. It authorizes a person to be your
agent to make decisions about your health care if you are not able to make decisions for yourself.
By: Legal Hotline for Older Iowans
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"Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care Decisions" Form A form you can print out and use to prepare your own Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care Decisions or "Medical Power of Attorney."
By: Legal Hotline for Older Iowans
Consumer?s tool kit for health care advance planning
(Separate Website)
Here are worksheets to help you make good advance planning health decisions
By: American Bar Association
Do Not Resuscistate (DNR) Orders: What Are They and What's New?
People often worry about being revived when they are terminally ill and dying. Being revived can be painful and unwanted. If you are or become terminally ill, you should know about ?Do-Not-Resuscitate? or ?DNR? Orders.
By: Legal Hotline for Older Iowans
Substitute Decision-Making
Competent individuals have the right to make all sorts of decisions about their lives. Examples are the right to decide about getting health care, and what kind of care to get. What does it mean to be competent and who makes decisions for someone who is not competent?
By: Iowa Legal Aid
Common Legal Terms
(Separate Website)
An online glossary of legal terms from A to W
By: Iowa Judicial Branch
Life and Death Decisions
Iowans have two simple ways to make their desires known in advance about medical treatment if they become incompentent: Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care.
By: Iowa Legal Aid
Getting Emergency Medical Care
Hospitals must treat you - even if you don?t have insurance - when you have an emergency condition or are a woman in active labor. Hospitals must treat your medical emergency until you become stable. The hospital may bill you later, but it cannot turn you away from emergency care.
By: Iowa Legal Aid
Getting Help With a Substance Abuse Problem
If you, a friend or a family member needs help for a drug or alcohol problem, there are programs and facilities that can help.
By: Iowa Legal Aid
Getting Medical Assistance
Many people need help paying for health care. Iowa has several programs that may help you.
By: Iowa Legal Aid
Getting Mental Health Services
If you, a friend, or a family member needs help with a mental health problem, there are programs and facilities that can help.
By: Iowa Legal Aid
Getting the Health Care Services You Need
Has your insurance company, Medicare or Medicaid denied you help? You don?t have to take no for an answer.
By: Iowa Legal Aid
Listings of Clinic Locations and Hours
Click on the yellow "Where to Get Other Help" tab above. Then enter your zip code, your community, or your county for details on local free and reduced cost medical clinics. This information is based on a list prepared by the Iowa Division of Latino Affairs, Department of Human Rights, revised in January 2004. Additional clinics from Free Clinics of Iowa are also included. If no clinic is listed, select a neighboring county. Call any clinic and ask if they serve your county, too.
By: Iowa Department of Human Rights
Iowa Department of Human Services Health Care Services
(Separate Website)
Learn about Medicaid (Title 19), hawk-i: Healthy and Well Kids in Iowa, and the Health Insurance Premium Payment (HIPP) Program. Links to application forms are included.
By: Iowa Department of Human Services
Application Forms for Health Services Programs
(Separate Website)
Complete this form if you live in Iowa and want to get Medical Assistance (Title 19 or Medicaid), WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children), or Maternal and Child Health services. (Requires the Acrobat Reader to view.)
By: Iowa Department of Human Services
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The IowaCare Program
IowaCare is a state program providing low-cost health care to many Iowans.
By: Legal Hotline for Older Iowans
Medicaid Payment for Nursing Home Care
Many people rely on Medicaid, also known as Title 19, to pay for their nursing home care. People may generally receive Medicaid payment for their nursing home care if their income is $1,809 or less per month and their nonexempt resources are $2,000 or less.
By: Legal Hotline for Older Iowans
Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Programs
Sometimes a person who requires health-related care and assistance with activities of daily living does not need or want to move out of his or her home. Medicaid may be able to provide help for persons with disabilities who can live at home with support.
By: Iowa Legal Aid
Medical Records and Privacy in Iowa
When you go to the doctor or a hospital, the doctor or nurse always writes in your chart. This is part of your medical record or written history of care a patient gets. A number of laws and policies apply to what doctors or hospitals can do with this information.
By: Iowa Legal Aid
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