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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I think you've gotten some great advice, but I wanted to mention one more thing.  If you have no payor source for the hospitalization, your father will be on the hook for payment.  So, it's a good idea to work quickly, cooperatively and efficiently with the social worker.  I agree that you shouldn't panic because you have a great resource - the hospital social worker.  But, you can't sit back and not move things along either because your father isn't going to get to stay in the hospital for free.

And, seriously heed the PPs advice about not giving away your parents' resources to get qualified for Medicaid.  It doesn't work.  [/quote]
Definitely work with the hospital social worker as I suggested up thread, but please be clear that the social worker works for the hospital, and their endgame is to get that bed free. Is your dad on medicare? He has I believe 90 or 100 days of skilled nursing if he gets sent to rehab again. Honestly, I would not be worried about paying for his current hospital stay. Your big concern is long term, that is a much bigger bill. Right now, the fact that he is sick and their is no diagnosis leaves the ball in the hospital's court. Your dad is sick, immobile and UNDIAGNOSED. [/quote]

What is your obsession with diagnosis? Do you really want some fake catch all diagnosis to make everyone feel better with a label?
Obviously you went the "hospital and doctors are the enemy" route with your situation, but most of your posts have wrong information in them.

Just to correct this post, you have 100 Med A days in a rehab (some are connected to nursing facilities, some are not) but only the first 21 days are 100% reimbursed, it goes down incrementally from there. If he has been in and out of the hospital and to rehab, those days are already counting down from 100, meaning he may have already used up his 21 free days

And remember your rant against the hospital and social worker when complaining about healthcare costs. If a person does not need the specialized acute skills of a hospital 24/7, the most expensive stay on the medical world, then yes the hospital should find a level of care appropriate to the need. And don't complain about ER wait times either, when the ER is backed up because there are no available beds for admits [/quote]
Get over yourself. Understanding that you are your parents' best advocate is not saying the hospital is the enemy. It is about understanding your goals and theirs is not always the same . It is understanding that you need to know and understand ALL your options. [/quote]

Well at least this post DIDNT HAVE ALL CAPS with hysteria and sport analogies.[/quote]

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