Anyone know if Medicare will extend SNF coverage during this national emergency with the Coronavirus?

We have relatives in this position. Medicare will no longer pay for their stay as they are not progressing with treatment. They cannot be discharged safely back home. They are in the rehab center on private pay while a safe discharge placement is found for them- at $400 a day.

I doubt your mother would be 'safer' in a SNF than she would be at home. If you cannot care for her at home, then that's a horse of another color and she needs to stay in long term care for THAT reason. SNFs are being hit harder with the virus than individual homes, that's for sure, as community environments tend to enable the spread of a disease much quicker and more easily than in an isolated, at home environment. You can private pay to extend her stay where she's at, and then apply for Medicaid once her money runs out, providing the facility takes Medicaid.

I seriously doubt Medicare will be extending rehab benefits........it doesn't really make sense for them to do that. Getting rehab after a fall has nothing to do with this virus, so if your mother has regained her strength after 100 days, then she's ready to be released based on that math.

Wishing you the best of luck moving forward!