( August 1, 2023, 1:04 PM EDT) -- ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A New York appellate court panel affirmed a determination imposing a penalty period on a now-deceased nursing home resident’s application for long-term care Medicaid, finding that evidence supports the New York State Department of Health’s (DOH) decision that transfers by the decedent’s son pursuant to a power of attorney (POA) for his mother were made “in part” to qualify her for Medicaid rather than as executor of his father’s estate....