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As the COVID PHE ends, Medicare will stop paying for many skilled nursing stays

By Forbes  
   May 15, 2023

The change, one among dozens that affect older adults, restores rules from before the pandemic. The basic pre-Covid rule said that traditional Medicare would pay for a SNF stay only if a patient was first admitted to a hospital for at least three consecutive days. Others would have to pay out of their own pocket. Medicare waived that rule during the pandemic but now it is back.

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