Kilmartin joins other attorneys general in CMS comment

PROVIDENCE – Attorney General Peter Kilmartin recently joined 14 other attorneys general urging stronger consumer protections on long-term care facility contracts in comments submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The attorneys general argue that pre-dispute arbitration clauses in the contracts give consumers too little bargaining power and erode the rights of families at a sensitive time.

According to Kilmartin and his counterparts, residents and family members only learn of the existence of binding arbitration clauses in contracts with long-term care facilities after a dispute arises or a tragic event takes place.

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