residents have to be skilled for Medicare 24/7. Just as a treatment that is only every
3 days is not skillable, I dont see how antibiotics every 3 days is enough to skill
unless you have numerous orders and visits.
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I have a question about those patients that are in a SNF unit and
receiving IV antibiotics daily on admission. Then at some point during
the stay, the IV meds are changed to q 36 hours. IF they have no other
skilled qualifiers, what do you do with these patients? We have a
facility in our community that says they keep them on their SNF even
though they don't have a daily skilled qualifier; they say their FI has
no problem with this. But we have a different FI who says we need a
daily qualifier. Our facility is trying to figure out how to deal with
this.
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