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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There will be much more intensive and hopefully effective rehab in a facility. You have to be able to do 3 hours a day to qualify for inpatient under Medicare—realistically, is he going to receive this level of care at home?[/quote]
That’s impatient rehab , not subacute rehab. Many older adults with hip fractures cannot tolerate 3 hours of therapy a day realistically [/quote]

Can you explain how it's determined what the patient can handle in terms of therapy hours? I'm curious because when my parent had a different condition, the whole "they may not be able to handle 3 hours" thing definitely seemed more like an excuse the hospital gave in case there was no available bed in inpatient rehab. They acted like because they had mobility issues in the hospital maybe they wouldn't qualify, but once I pushed for impatient rehab over SNF, they easily qualified.

If they didn't need mobility help due to the issue they were hospitalized for, they wouldn't have needed the rehab in the first place. Plus by nature hospitals don't have time to test anyone out on how they handle 3 hours of therapy.

My personal opinion is anyone who can handle inpatient rehabilitation should do that over SNF because they will likely get home faster.[/quote]

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