Ariel143

That is exactly my concern. As for billing, I'm in the dark on that one. I'm not sure how they're billing these patients and my facility has a not so good rep. We're 1 out of 5 stars.... If that helps. Them committing insurance fraud wouldn't surprise me or anybody else to say the least... I'm unsure if they're doing so, but the thought frightens me.

I see what you're staying. The other problem here as well is... They're not over booked on the SNF side...

I work in a facility where one side is sub-Acute & the other side is SNF. I know that patients that are admitted into the subacute unit are patients with a tracheostomy. The census (# of subacute residents) at the facility I work at has been low & it has affected the employees hours (the lower the census the lower the employees hours) As of next week, my facility will be adding SNF patients who have NO tracheostomy & do not have any respiratory problems and they would admit them to the sub Acute unit as sub Acute residents. Again, they're suppose to be SNF residents, NO Acute (in my perspective) I'm a new nurse and I'm confused and I'm wondering, can they do that? Is this legal?? Is this frowned upon?? Has this scenario happened else where or is it just at this facility that I work at??