Medicare may owe you a refund if you had to pay for rehab due to observation status.

Until recently, Medicare patients had no recourse if the hospital changed their status from inpatient to observation resulting in Medicare not covering their rehabilitation stays. However, recently a federal judge in Connecticut held that Medicare beneficiaries whose hospital stays were changed to observation status can now appeal to Medicare for reimbursement of their rehab stays. However, those patients whose doctors initially placed them on observation status still cannot appeal. This ruling in the class-action case, Alexander v. Azar, opens the doors for hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries to recover payment for their nursing home rehabilitation stays. Read article here…

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