Which of the following statements is incorrect?
The practice of transitioning post-acute-care hospital patients to nursing homes
A) may generate some savings to Medicare due to shortened hospital stays.
B) may overstretch Medicaid budget.
C) is profitable for nursing homes because it fills beds that would otherwise stay empty for prolonged periods of time.
D) aims to achieve system-wide cost savings due to substitution of expensive hospital care with less expensive nursing home care.
E) has not really generated the level of system-wide savings that were originally anticipated because demand for new services provided outside of the hospital has exceeded savings from shortened hospital services.
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