Could you explain this further? A person providing services may not transfer or !
Question:
Could you explain this further? A person providing services may not transfer or discharge an elderly...?
A person providing services may not transfer or discharge an elderly individual unless:
1. the elderly individual’s health is improved sufficiently so that services are no longer needed;
2. the person providing services ceases to operate or to participate in the program that reimburses the person providing services for the elderly individual’s treatment or care; or
Please help me explain number 1 and number 2!
Answers:
This sounds like a contract or consent for treatment at an extended care facility. Or perhaps this is a bill designed to protect the elderly living in the facility.
This first sentence states that the patient cannot be released from the facility unless the patient regains enough health that skilled services are no longer needed.
The second sentence states that the patient cannot be released unless the patient decides to not subscribe to services that pay the facility. For instance, if someone is on Medicare, and the facility accepts Medicare as a payment; but the patient later decides to discontinue their Medicare services (perhaps for an HMO policy).
These sound like statements that are meant to protect elderly persons from being "kicked out" of a facility prematurely. However, it has a provision to protect the facility...giving them the right to release the individual once services are no longer needed or they are no longer getting paid.