Medicare officially kills 25% rule for long-term care hospitals

Modern Healthcare: The CMS on Thursday finalized its plan to eliminate the so-called 25% rule that would ding long-term care hospitals' Medicare reimbursement rates.

Under the long-postponed policy, if more than a quarter of a long-term care hospital's patients came from a single acute-care hospital, the long-term care hospital would receive a reduced Medicare reimbursement rate for patients exceeding that threshold.

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