Mom has been in the hospital for more than a week. To keep her room at the nursing home, we are shelling out almost $500 a day. Will these thousands of dollars be considered legitimate spend-down by Medicaid, or will they question this expenditure as extravagant? She will be going back to nursing home life in much worse mental and physical condition than when we took her to the hospital and we do not want to change her environment if we do not have to.
Our reimbursement rate because she was actually living in a rehab even though Medicare paid for the rehab. $500 per day seems exorbitant