{"id":497230,"date":"2026-02-22T18:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497230\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T18:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:07:37","slug":"opinion-medicare-ignores-mobility-as-a-measure-of-nursing-home-patient-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497230\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Medicare ignores mobility as a measure of nursing home patient health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TL74RZVN3JC5PH6WZ2JGKVNS7A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Neha Sabharwal is a physical therapist and rehabilitation director.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"W6E4XLBEINEXFOPV4S3FX3C4WY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">As a physical therapist and rehabilitation director who oversees Medicare-funded nursing home care for patients recovering from serious illness or injury, I know what happens when an older adult enters a nursing home after a stroke or a hip fracture. The family expects recovery. The facility promises rehabilitation. Medicare pays for skilled care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neha Sabharwal is a physical therapist and rehabilitation director. As a physical therapist and rehabilitation director who oversees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500,250348],"class_list":["post-497230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-partner-exclude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}