A new trend in hospitals could cost you and nursing homes thousands of dollars.

If you are on Medicare and spend 3 days (midnights) admitted to a hospital, you will qualify for rehabilitation in a nursing home. Consequently, Medicare will pay the first twenty days, and you will be in a co-pay with Medicare up to 100 days. However, the trend is, hospitals are under significant pressure from Medicare to fully treat a person once they are “admitted” to the hospital.  There are guidelines that the hospital has to meet basically to ensure that person stays healthy once they are dismissed from the hospital.  Therefore, hospitals are bringing a person in for “observation” for…

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