RE: ADMISSION ASSESSMENT

[Orth, Ron A]

Health Care Facilities (SNFs, NF, Hospitals, etc) are classified as participating and nonparticipating, meaning that they either participate in the Medicare Program or they dont.   Ron -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 8:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ADMISSION ASSESSMENT In a message dated 4/12/2004 5:49:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is a question.  You could only bill Medicare for that day if the resident is discharged to a nonparticipating facility.  If the resident was discharged back to the hospital or other SNF, then the faciltiy would not be able to bill for that day???? what's a nonparticipating facility?