I didn’t even think about that. ☝🏻

I have an insider knowledge that this project is not happening. No development work has continued following a not-quite-successful fundraising effort. Following that, the pandemic came in and crapped all over the project budget via blowing out construction costs past what the project could afford.

Rest easy r/vermont, this prominent downtown site will continue to flounder as a single-level strip mall and crumbling brownfield site for the foreseeable future.

I’m an out of stater myself. Yes, it turns out that I was lucky and moved here prior to this housing crisis that is nationwide and more due to wealth inequality than anything else. I’m grateful everyday for that but hate that a mix of desperation from some and impatience and self centered blinders from others has them beating a drum that will overwhelmingly benefit the uber-capitalist fat cats and not deliver the utopia they dream. Shit sucks right now for far too many, period, hard stop. My heart breaks for the housing insecure and my comments are not intended to minimize their struggles but developers are not our saviors. This crisis is an opportunity for a paradigm shift rather than a band-aid, but I’m not holding my breath. My focus is my kid, and the generations beyond but I fear that we’re screaming into the wind. I’m not going to advocate kicking the can down the road any longer. We don’t need so much of what so many are convinced we need to live a meaningful and good life. We need a healthy ecosystem. Somewhere someone has to say stop, enough.

Edit: To clarify before anyone misreads and tries to tell me what I said or mean, I’m NOT grateful for the housing crisis or wealth inequality. I’m grateful that I was just lucky (and was quite patient) that I moved here at a time when houses sat on the market for many months to years and people weren’t stepping on each other and trying to outcompete locals for housing. I’m grateful that I was seen through a positive lens back then. Unfortunately that’s just not now.

Lol, that is not true at all. Sorry man.

I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. The Court isn't out to screw anybody over their ignorance or error. It's mostly the kids who get ahold of the parents' estate and start spending money or grabbing the jewelry they thought they were entitled to.

Surrogates Court (in NY) and Probate Court here are not particularly contentious courtrooms. Everybody understands there is a job to do, and that the estate needs to be divided up fairly.

If you submit a bill to the estate for the damages and the costs you have incurred, I'm sure the judge will recognize that and compensate you appropriately.

There are also statutory commissions ($) for the executor but I'm not sure how much that is here in VT.

It's not the most pleasant experience but it is something many of us have to go through.

700-00302.pdf (vermontjudiciary.org)

Good Luck.

Did your friend have auto insurance? That’s the only reason I can think of for why the medical bills wouldn’t be covered by Medicaid. Usually when it comes to car accidents, the auto insurance is the primary payer, and the health insurance picks up as secondary.

I wholeheartedly agree! It's really nice to see someone advocating for de-growth! If you look at the other comments, a lot of people talk about how all the people moving here have made everything expensive or whatever, so I misread your comment to be against attracting people to move here for similar reasons. Apologies :)

I asked the 'peon' on the line if there was anything I could do to help expedite the process with medicaid- they were no help. I'll have words with the patient advocacy thing soon.

Not blaming out of staters for anything. Just challenging the idea that more growth is needed or even better. Everything has a cost benefit. I don’t buy the bullshit and arguably dated old and myopic arguments for endless growth. Vermont should truly be progressive and embrace and lead in de-growth, a system not dependent upon consumption and more. Just take one look at where endless growth and consumption is leading us…

I’ve seen all too often where falsely incentivizing growth leads us as well and it’s not pretty and those who benefit typically aren’t left holding the bill in the aftermath.

Give the hospital main switchboard (802-847-0000) a call and ask for patient advocacy. They’ve helped me get someone with human emotions and common sense on the phone from billing. You’re dealing with a peon upholding the letter of their procedure right now. You likely need a higher up to facilitate resubmitting to Medicaid/fighting that battle.

IANAL, sounds like you need to prorate the second line-item of distribution: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14/066/01205

As executor (I guess in this case because he had no will your title is technically administrator--moot difference), you have a right to access his medical records including billing under HIPAA. Make sure to be specific on format or they'll send you a bunch of gobbeldygook that's faxed, printed and rescanned into a PDF without text search or anything. I'm pretty sure you have to contact any imaging departments directly (you'd want to ask their records department) if they did anything like MRIs/CTs/X-Rays which they'd likely send you on DVDs in DICOM format with a viewer baked into the DVD.

You can also check the statutes to see if there was a time limit on the hospital making the claim.

There is a time limit to respond to records requests and if they omit anything requested without providing reason you can file a complaint with the federal Office of Civil Rights (OCR) which is the government body that enforces HIPAA.

ask ouimette and runcy that question. I used them for settling my father's estate and they wouldnt touch this one.

I'm not allowed to alter the title.

Why? Seems this is exactly the type of work they’d do

>Medicaid failed to pay this bill when he was alive and it might be passed the window for it to be paid off via medicaid.

If you have their Medicaid info and they had active coverage at the time of the billing Medicaid will pay. The hospital just needs to resubmit the bill. Call Vermont Health Connect and I can guarantee they'll tell you the same... assuming this was VT Medicaid that they had.

Absolutely this. Thank you!!!

No problem I had to do it a couple of times at the homeless shelter. But the last time was 4 or so years ago I knew I was forgetting something.

Thank you this info is helpful!

> Get an estate lawyer before you do anything else.

I tried in the beginning - they did not want to work with me.

> I'm guessing your friend died intestate?

no will or anything. was poor, died with some money that was part of settlement for said car crash. Found him dead on the floor the day after my birthday.

> Your liability as executor is very limited as long as you follow the rules.

I might have fucked up.

But they can only make you pay money from his estate. If you can show money from his estate went to other bills.

If you had past bills they owed you money for GET THE BILLS IN WRITING. If you have an old lease agreement anything like that make sure you have a record of the debt.

https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14/066/01205

There is an order that debts have to be paid off in.

Any costs you incurred while carrying out the terms of the estate are the FIRST thing you pay off. I think You can make a case that the cost of your paid off debts is a cost of executing the will.

The second is the funeral and burial and along with any medical costs of the LAST illness of the decedent. If that was 2 years prior was that his LAST illness? If not you're honestly probably fine.

3rd is paying their employees.( seems asinine this is after medical expenses tbh)

4th is any other claims I ASSUME the hospital crap falls under there.

> it be paid out of

FTFY.

Although payed exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:

• Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. The deck is yet to be payed.

• Payed out when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. The rope is payed out! You can pull now.

Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.

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IF a lawyer can show that you had that expense first, just maybe they'll let it be payed out of the estate to spend down is assets before they get their fingers on it.

You can also charge reasonable 'estate agent' fees against the assets.

NAL, but I've been to this rodeo a few times.

I feel your pain, I had similar dealings with the deaths of 4 immediate family.

Another trick Dartmouth tried on my is that they delayed billing my insurance company until it was too late, then came at ME For payment since they couldn't collect from the insurance. How is their terrible billing setup MY problem?

Or when they bill me for an 'out of newtwork' service IN THEIR OWN HOSPITAL because the DR reading an MRI was not in network and I didn't get prior authorization.

Medicare will get their pound of flesh in the end. The only way around it really is to 'use up' the assets in some other way before Medicare gets their slice, but it may be too late for that.

Which is why it's silly to pin this on UVMMC. This is a USA problem.