Outside of the office, Nathan enjoys spending time with his wife, Lindsay, son, Erik, and his parents and friends.  He can often be found biking around town, coaching his son’s t-ball team, hanging out near the lake, playing games, and volunteering with his church and other civic organizations.  He is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) and the Denton County Bar Association, where he previously served as President of the Young Lawyers Section. 

For over six years, Nathan gained experience working for a national law firm representing nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and subacute care centers in guardianships, Medicaid applications, and Medicaid appeals.  In those six years, Nathan successfully established numerous guardianships in Texas and Florida and oversaw the approval of many Medicaid applications for nursing home residents in need.  Nathan also has extensive experience arguing wrongful denials of Medicaid applications before the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s hearings officers.

Nathan had the opportunity to take one of those Medicaid appeals all the way to the Supreme Court of Texas.  In Texas Health and Human Services Commission v. Anna Marroney, 2019 Tex. App. LEXIS 4298, 2019 WL 2237885 (Tex. App. – Austin 2019, pet. denied), Nathan successfully argued that the HHSC had wrongfully denied Medicaid benefits to Ms. Marroney on the basis that Ms. Marroney owned too many assets resulting in the recovery of over a year’s worth of Medicaid benefits to her.  Nathan’s researched and drafted multiple trial and appellate briefs arguing that, due to Ms. Marroney’s incapacity and lack of a legal representative to access her assets, the assets in her name were inaccessible to her, and thus uncountable assets, in determining her Medicaid eligibility.  As a result, the Third Court of Appeals upheld the 345th District Court for Travis County’s Judgment in favor of Ms. Marroney and reversed the HHSC’s denial of her Medicaid application requiring the HHSC to approve over 15 months of previously denied benefits.

Nathan also successfully challenged the HHSC’s policy on Incurred Medical Expenses (IME).  Over a 5 year period, Nathan worked with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal administrative agency charged with overseeing state Medicaid programs, to recognize that Texas’ Medicaid policy was not in compliance with federal Medicaid laws and regulations with respect to the deduction of unpaid medical bills incurred in the three months prior to the month of an approved Medicaid application for an Applicant who was not approved for Medicaid benefits during the three month retroactive period.  After filing an amicus brief with the CMS’ Hearing Officer, CMS’ Deputy Administrator concluded that the HHSC’s IME policy was not in compliance with federal law, which has paved the way for Medicaid Applicants to request deductions from the post-eligibility applied income/co-payment for unpaid, medically necessary nursing home expenses and medical bills incurred when the Applicant was not eligible for Long-Term Medicaid benefits to reduce or eliminate the balance owed to the nursing homes.

After fighting all of these battles on behalf of the nursing homes and assisted living facilities, Nathan knew it was time to begin helping those elderly, incapacitated, and disabled individuals and their families in guardianships, Medicaid, probate, and estate planning. The Law Offices of Nathan Peters, PLLC is here to help you sort through your problems and find cost-effective and practical solutions to ensure you and your loved ones are appropriately cared for.

Nathan Peters is not board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.