For many years, Medicare has stopped paying for therapies or skilled care once the patient stopped improving, or plateaud.  This is not what the regulations say, but somehow that became the practice across the country. In December, the good folks at the Medicare Advocacy Project fought and won against this trend, and a federal...

Every day, families of nursing home patients are told that Medicare coverage will be ending in a day or two, because the patient is no longer “improving.”  Well, that has never been what the Medicare regulations say, but somehow, that has become the common practice across the country. The good folks at the Medicare...