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Articles Related to Skilled Nursing Facilities

  • Who's Responsible for Care After Stroke? (Post-Gazette Now – 3/31/09)
    With certain limitations and so long as the therapy meets the "reasonable and necessary" test, Medicare will generally pay for PT, OT and ST in the hospital, in a skilled nursing facility for up to 100 days, in the home setting under specific circumstances, and at special therapy facilities.

  • You're Not in the Hospital. You're in Observation! (CMA Health Policy Consultants – 7/13/10)
    Medicare beneficiaries – although placed in hospital beds (often, from the emergency room) and given medications, tests, therapies, medical and nursing services, food, and a wrist-band – are told they aren’t in-patients; they’re just receiving observation services as outpatients. Patients often learn about their out-patient status just as they are leaving the hospital for the skilled nursing facility – which won’t be covered by the Medicare program because they weren’t in-patients for three consecutive days!