Can a hospital attach the annuities left to the executor to pay for unreasonable and unnecessary procedures to the decedent in the final days of his life?

Can a hospital attach the annuities left to the executor to pay for unreasonable and unnecessary procedures to the decedent in the final days of his life?

A hospital did a biopsy of a lung lesion on a man who had end stage cirrosis of the liver and kidney disease. Can the hospital take the annuities of the decedent’s 2 adult sons to pay for the unnecessary procedure?

Asked on August 15, 2012 under Estate Planning, New Mexico

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