---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 409.36"
title: "42"
number: "409.36"
heading: "Effect of discharge from posthospital SNF care."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/409.36"
---

# §409.36. Effect of discharge from posthospital SNF care.


If a beneficiary is discharged from a facility after receiving posthospital SNF care, he or she is not entitled to additional services of this kind in the same benefit period unless—

- (a) He or she is readmitted to the same or another facility within 30 calendar days following the day of discharge (or, before December 5, 1980, within 14 calendar days after discharge); or
- (b) **He or she is again hospitalized for at least 3 consecutive calendar days.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302 and 1395hh.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 12541, Mar. 25, 1983, unless otherwise noted.