Three nights in a hospital bed that did not count. Observation versus inpatient, the notice they have to hand you, and the three-day rule that decides whether Medicare pays for rehab.
Medicare & Healthcare

Three nights in a hospital bed that did not count. Observation versus inpatient, the notice they have to hand you, and the three-day rule that decides whether Medicare pays for rehab.

You can sleep three nights in a hospital, in a gown, with a wristband, and be an outpatient the whole time. Then the rehab bill arrives. Here is the rule that makes that possible, the form the hospital must give you, the one question to ask while you are still in the bed, and the arithmetic: the sam