A letter to the editor is presented which discusses a Medicare rule that denies coverage for post-hospital extended services when an inpatient's stay in a hospital is less than three consecutive days.doi:10.1111/jgs.12579Andrew B. Cohen
For nearly 50 years Medicare has required patients to endure at least a three-day stint in the hospital before they become eligible for coverage of skilled nursing care afterward. A new study, however, finds that the main consequence of waiving the rule, as Medicare Advantage plans commonly do...
Waiving the three-day rule: admissions and length-of-stay at hospitals and skilled nursing facilities did not increase. Health Aff (Millwood). 2015;34(8):1324-1330. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0054PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 23. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nursing home CO...
The rule, however, means that two midnights spent under observation do not count toward the three-day inpatient stay that patients need to qualify for coverage in a nursing home or SNF. “It’s not just a matter of the time spent in the hospital, it’s how the patient is classified,”...
first eligible to do so. If you do not qualify to be enrolled automatically in Medicare Part A and B, you can do so during your Initial Enrollment Period, which starts three months before you turn 65, includes the month you turn 65 and lasts for three additional months after you turn ...
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Although Medicare-enrolled providers and suppliers historically were required to provide notice of changes in enrollment data, prior to the Medicare enrollment rule changes in June 2006, there were no sanctions for failing to do so.
included in their bills, the three committees developed an agreement, the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 (BIPA, P.L. 106-554). The provisions were designed to increase payments for many of the ...
$1,000 for each calendar day of noncompliance where the record was reported three years or more after the required reporting date Penalty Calculation Method: CMS will multiply the number of audited records found to be noncompliant by the number of days that each record was late (in excess of...
We need to invoke my Golden Rule so that government grows slower than the private sector. In the long run, that will require genuine entitlement reform. Or we can let America become Greece. Share this: Print Email Facebook Twitter More Loading... Read Full Post » Three Not-so-Great Mo...