Any new updates on the Medicare "three-day rule"?

[Kenneth82]

Hey, I've read a few things about the Medicare three-day rule being challenged by class-action lawsuits (for example here: Medicare's "3-Day Rule" Lawsuit Goes To Trial - EZ.Insure), but I haven't seen any results of the challenges. Anybody know anything? Thanks!

 

[yorkriver1]

Longer term, it is being worked on, but for now, CMS has waived it due to Covid, with some provisions, so maybe not for everyone.
https://www.cms.gov/files/document/...laration-health-care-providers-fact-sheet.pdf
p. 9
"Long-Term Care Facilities and Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) and/or Nursing Facilities (NFs) • 3-Day Prior Hospitalization. Using the authority under Section 1812(f) of the Act, CMS is waiving the requirement for a 3-day prior hospitalization for coverage of a SNF stay, which provides temporary emergency coverage of SNF services without a qualifying hospital stay, for those people who experience dislocations, or are otherwise affected by COVID-19. In addition, for certain beneficiaries who recently exhausted their SNF benefits, it authorizes renewed SNF coverage without first having to start a new benefit period (this waiver will apply only for those beneficiaries who have been delayed or prevented by the emergency itself from commencing or completing the process of ending their current benefit period and renewing their SNF benefits that would have occurred under normal circumstances)."