Ch. 28, § 9

Transfer to Nursing Facility. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) an applicant or client receiving swing bed services must be transferred to the first available, appropriate nursing facility bed in the hospital's geographic region upon the availability date, as defined in 42 C.F.R. § 413.114(b). Medicaid payment to the hospital for swing bed services will terminate after the date of the transfer. (b) The facility must maintain records of its efforts to transfer each client, including the facility or facilities contacted and any response. Such records must be maintained as part of the client's medical records kept pursuant to Chapter 3. (c) The requirements of subsection (a) do not apply if the client's physician certifies, in writing, that transfer is not medically appropriate.