“CMS waives three-day stay requirement, MDS deadlines as dining struggles emerge amid COVID-19 response,” by Danielle Brown, McKnight’s LTC News

 

 

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“The federal government is waiving its three-day stay requirement for Medicare skilled nursing facility coverage as it works to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak across the United States. The waiver of the rule comes after President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national state of emergency for the 2019 novel coronavirus disease.”

 

 

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

Private LTC insurance dropped the 3-day hospitalization requirement many years ago. Only a global virus pandemic impelled Medicare to do so now, temporarily.