Humana Medicare Advantage cut off my 82-year-old mother's skilled nursing rehab on day 11 of a stroke recovery plan, citing "no measurable functional improvement," the facility handed me a NOMNC notice at 4:30pm on a friday with a QIO appeal deadline of noon saturday, her hospital stay was billed as "observation" for 2 of her 3 nights, and her therapists privately tell me she needs 3 more weeks while their own notes say "plateau." how do i run the weekend fast appeal, use the Jimmo maintenance standard against the improvement myth, and protect her from a $10,400/month private pay cliff in Pennsylvania?
my mother is 82, had an ischemic stroke sixteen days ago, left side weakness, swallowing issues that are improving, and until yesterday afternoon i thought the system was more or less working. she...