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Medicare Won't Pay Unless Patient Stays In Hospital For At Least 3 Days
Published on Sun Jul 04, 2010
Outdated regulation covering nursing home stays still applies. Medicare rules can at times be very confusing and, if miscalculated, very costly. This is especially true of the "3-Day Rule," which dates back to 1966. Many call obsolete today but is still being used by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as a cost-saving measure for nursing home stays following hospitalizations. 3-Day Rule: One Patient's Experience In his post on
www.omaha.com, Michael Vitez of The Philadelphia Inquirer, tells of Fran Bogom, 86, a resident of the Abramson Center for Jewish Life in Horsham, who broke her arm on Jan. 3 when she dozed off and fell from her bed as she was watching TV. A widow with mild dementia, Bogom was taken to the Abington Memorial Hospital emergency room at 9:21 p.m. Doctors decided to keep her overnight under observation and to determine the further course of action on [...]
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