Cornerstone Healthcare Group of Dallas recently started construction of the 54-bed Cornerstone Hospital Round Rock (Texas), one of the first new long-term care hospitals (LTACH) to be developed since a five-year moratorium ended Dec. 29. (Rendering courtesy of Cornerstone Healthcare Group)
After 5 years, will expiration mean a surge of activity in the post-acute space?
By John B. Mugford
At long last – after five years, in fact – the federal government’s moratorium on the development of new long-term care hospitals (LTACHs), as well as the expansion of existing ones, has finally come to an end.
An original three-year moratorium, under the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act, was passed in 2007 and was set to expire in 2010, only to be extended through a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
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