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37.40.401 swing-bed hospitals, definitions (1) A swing-bed hospital is a licensed hospital, critical access hospital (CAH) with swing-bed approval or licensed medical assistance facility which is medicare-certified to provide posthospital SNF care as defined in 42 CFR 409.20.
Medicare covers swing bed services: In certain hospitals; When the hospital or critical access hospital (CAH) has entered into a swing-bed agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). With a swing-bed agreement, the facility can swing its beds and provide either acute hospital or SNF-level care, as needed. When swing beds are used to furnish SNF-level care, the same coverage and cost-sharing rules apply as though the services were furnished in a SNF.