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A Senate bill introduced Wednesday would count days spent under ‘observation status’ in a hospital toward Medicare’s three-day qualifying stay requirement.
The nation’s largest advocacy group for seniors, AARP, is again joining providers in pushing the elimination of the three-day stay rule.
The reintroduced bill would apply hospital ‘observation status’ designation toward Medicare’s 3-day hospital stay requirement.
A group of bipartisan lawmakers are looking to end the federal government’s three-day stay requirement for Medicare skilled nursing facility coverage under a proposal reintroduced in the House this Tuesday.