What Do Changes to Acute Inpatient Rehab Mean? – bit.ly Medicare changes to Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation facilities has resulted in a reduction in acute rehab beds and facilities, causing many patients to rely on nursing home rehab for brain injury rehabilitation, complex orthopedic rehabilitation, spinal rehabilitation, stroke rehab and various neuro-degenerative rehabilitations such as Parkinson’s. Understanding the distinctions between nursing homes and acute inpatient rehab centers could be important for your vitality and well-being. Nancy Zyrkowski, program director, and Dr. Mario Giorgianni, medical director at El Camino Hospital’s Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Center in Los Gatos, California, talk about how to find the right rehab center for you.

 

Medicare overpaid inpatient rehab facilities by .4 million, OIG says

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Inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) were overpaid by Medicare by $ 8.4 million between calendar year 2009 and 2010, a government report reveals. Under Medicare's prospective payment system, IRFs must submit a patient assessment instrument (PAI) …
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Man injured by drunken driver defies recovery odds

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Thanks to those tiny signs of hope, specialists at Terre Haute Regional admitted him to their 12-bed inpatient rehab unit. "We had to give this guy a chance," Karen Cotner, director of rehabilitation services at Regional, told the Tribune-Star (http …
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Emergency rooms save lives, but rehabilitation rebuilds lives

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Together, we worked hard, through inpatient rehab, and later outpatient therapy. Fast-forward to today, and he is that vibrant young man once again. He may move a little more slowly, but he's working. He's taking care of his grandfather. He's singing …
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