Any other nurses can you confirm the government is data mining the extended family of medicaid recipients?

EMS (rescue squad) charting asks for info on next of kin for billing purposes. Can't figure out ANY scenario where a biller would need to do a skip trace on Medicaid/Medicare patients. However, Obamacare has provisions about taking all assets of a person, from pensions to furniture to cover Medicare expenses. Basically, now when a person goes into a nursing home, the govt takes their entire estate upon death.

Hospitals always ask family history of diseases. (Because genetics is everything until you start talking about race, right?)

Yes hospitals do take a history of family disease but don't ask for DOB and names, that is new.

Your probably right about the estate, they will be coming after family for payment.

they have been doing that since the 1960's

hard to imagine how the DOB of sibs would be medically significant.