275N00000X — Medicare Defined Swing Bed Hospital Unit

Grouping

Hospital Units

Classification

Medicare Defined Swing Bed Unit

Specialization

None — this code IS the classification

Section

Non-Individual

Definition

A unit of a hospital that has a Medicare provider agreement and has been granted approval from HCFA to provide post-hospital extended care services and be reimbursed as a swing-bed unit.

NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.