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Hello. We have a DPOA/property management/financial, DPOA/Personal Care and Health, and a living will/health care directive signed by our 18-year-old daughter for my husband or I to act on her behalf in case of emergency or other needs that were issued in our home state of Washington. She/we had these prepared as she goes off to college and transitions into adulthood and managing things on her own.
These are all general encompassing and not springing POAs, so that we can talk to doctors if she gets sick or financial departments to make sure tuition is recorded paid, etc.
She will be going to college in Maryland. It is conceivable that she may get some healthcare or other services in Wash. DC and Virginia, for which her I, her parent, will be paying the bills after insurance.
Question: are Washington state-issued POAs (all of the ones listed above) legal and recognized in DC, VA and MD? Do we need to duplicate all of these in these states/district? Does the health DPOA cover HIPAA authorization? I ask the latter because I have DPOA/health and general for an aunt, and when she was in the hospital, they said they could not talk to me because she had not signed a HIPAA authorization even though they had the health POA on file. She couldn't sign a HIPAA auth. because she was incapacitated at the time, so that left me wondering what good the health DPOA was, and so I am wondering the same about the validity of our daughter's.
Thank you.
These are all general encompassing and not springing POAs, so that we can talk to doctors if she gets sick or financial departments to make sure tuition is recorded paid, etc.
She will be going to college in Maryland. It is conceivable that she may get some healthcare or other services in Wash. DC and Virginia, for which her I, her parent, will be paying the bills after insurance.
Question: are Washington state-issued POAs (all of the ones listed above) legal and recognized in DC, VA and MD? Do we need to duplicate all of these in these states/district? Does the health DPOA cover HIPAA authorization? I ask the latter because I have DPOA/health and general for an aunt, and when she was in the hospital, they said they could not talk to me because she had not signed a HIPAA authorization even though they had the health POA on file. She couldn't sign a HIPAA auth. because she was incapacitated at the time, so that left me wondering what good the health DPOA was, and so I am wondering the same about the validity of our daughter's.
Thank you.