Latest news from Rowley, MA collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: Irish (34.7%), American (17.3%), English (12.1%), Polish (4.5%), German (3.2%), Scottish (2.1%). Current Local Time: EST time zone. Incorporated in 1639.
37.40.401 swing-bed hospitals, definitions (1) A swing-bed hospital is a licensed hospital, critical access hospital (CAH) with swing-bed approval or licensed medical assistance facility which is medicare-certified to provide posthospital SNF care as defined in 42 CFR 409.20.
Facility (SNF)-level care. Rural hospitals and CAHs with swing bed approval increase Medicare patient access to post-acute SNF-level care. The statute governing Medicare payment requires a 3-day qualifying stay in any hospital or CAH prior to admission to a swing bed in any hospital or CAH, or admission to a SNF. The Medicare patientâs swing-bed stay must fall within the same spell of illness as the qualifying stay. This requirement applies only to patients who are Medicare beneficiaries and seek Medicare coverage of their SNF services.