improvement standard IS “an old wives’ tale.”

Read The New Times Article about "Failure to Improve Is Still Being Used, Wrongly, to Deny Medicare Coverage". "Medicare beneficiaries often hear such rationales for denying coverage of skilled nursing, home health care or outpatient therapy: They’re not improving. They’ve “reached a plateau.” They’re “stable and chronic,” or have achieved “maximum functional capacity.” "The so-called "improvement standard" is no longer in effect."


​Here is a link to The New Times Article

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