Effective Oct. 1,2012 the rule on re-admissions within 30 days is that the hospital will be fined.
Medicare already had rules about how long the patient should stay in the hospital. For example my mom was down to the last 2 days and the hospital was going to discharge her even though she was in a Coma if she didn’t hurry up and die. And the time period for re-admission used to be 3 days.
I encountered these readmit situations in 2006 when my Dad was in the hospital, discharged, and had to be readmitted the next day more than once.
When did this happen to your mom?
Trying to get a timeframe here......
Similar fishy stuff went on with my mom back in 2002 when she was deathly ill.... she had a couple things that by themselves would land anybody in hospital, yet they pushed to have her sent to a rehab place....