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Waiving the three-day rule: admissions and length-of-stay at hospitals and skilled nursing facilities did not increase.
The authors compared hospital and postacute skilled nursing facility utilization among Medicare Advantage enrollees in matched plans that did or did not eliminate that requirement in 2006-10. Among hospitalized enrollees with a skilled nursing facility admission, the mean hospital length-of-stay declined for those no longer subject to the qualifying stay but increased among those still subject to it. The elimination of the three-day-stay requirement was not associated with more hospital or skilled nursing facility admissions or with longer lengths-of-stay in a skilled nursing facility.
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Citation: Grebla RC, Keohane L, Lee Y .
Waiving the three-day rule: admissions and length-of-stay at hospitals and skilled nursing facilities did not increase.
Health Aff 2015 Aug;34(8):1324-30. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0054.
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Keywords: Elderly, Hospitalization, Long-Term Care, Nursing Homes, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research