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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.
Begley goes on to describe how the swing-bed idea developed, even over the initial reluctance of federal regulators to make an exception to Medicare regulations, the suspicion with which nursing homes received the idea, and the uncertainty about the level of care a practitioner could offer the occupant of a swing bed.