LTACH definition

LTACH means (a) a long-term hospital as defined in Volume 42, Section 412.23 of the Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor definition) or (b) any long-term hospital that is in development to achieve such status.
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LTACH means a long-term acute-care hospital.
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LTACH means the Company’s long-term acute care hospitals.
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Examples of LTACH in a sentence

  • The LTACH must have a separate Chief Executive Officer through whom all administrative authority flows, who is not employed by, or under contract with, the host hospital or any third entity that controls both hospitals.

  • A hospital may be allowed to convert these former LTACH beds to psychiatric, inpatient treatment facility, rehabilitation, or other specialty beds only if there is a bed need projected for this proposed other category of licensed beds.5. A hospital which seeks to be designated as a LTACH, and has been awarded a CON for that purpose, must be certified as a LTACH by CMS within 24 months of accepting its first patient, or the CON issued to that hospital for that purpose shall be revoked.

  • An applicant must document the need for LTACH beds based on the utilization of existing LTACH beds.

  • No entity other than the hospital (or its successor) that initially leased the general acute beds to the LTACH shall be entitled to the beds upon termination of the lease.

  • A hospital that has leased general beds to a LTACH shall be entitled to regain these beds once the lease is terminated.

  • The entity that has had its CON revoked shall not have the authority to operate as a general acute care hospital.6. A hospital that desires to be designated as a Pediatric LTACH must restrict admissions to patients under the age of 21 who require long-term medical care.

  • The LTACH must have a separate Chief Medical Officer who reports directly to the governing body and is responsible for all medical staff activities.

  • The new LTACH must have a governing body, which is distinct and separate from the governing body of the host hospital, and the new body cannot be under the control of the host hospital or any third entity that controls both hospitals.

  • Hospitals must meet additional federal criteria in order to qualify as a LTACH under the “hospital-within-a-hospital” model: 1.

  • Approximately one half of the patients in an LTACH have five or more diagnoses noted on their claims.


More Definitions of LTACH

LTACH means a licensed healthcare facility which meets all of the Qualifications Standards stated in Addendum B.
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LTACH means long-term acute care hospital. These facilities are designed for patients with serious medical problems that require intense, special treatment for an extended period of time (typically at least 25 days), offer more individualized and resource-intensive care than a skilled nursing facility, nursing home or acute rehabilitation facility, and patients are typically transferred to a long-term acute care hospital from the intensive care unit of a traditional hospital.
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