There are also inpatient rehabilitation hospitals that offer this service in a hospital-like setting, but separate from acute care facilities.
On the other hand, someone with a spine injury may need physical therapy and rehab to help restrict more damage from happening to their backs.
In the United States, rehabilitation hospitals are designed to meet the requirements imposed upon them by the Medicare administration, and to bill at the rates allowed by Medicare for such a facility.
Medicare allows a lifetime total of 100 days' stay in a rehabilitation hospital per person.
A positive determination will be made if the patient is deemed to require a certain level of therapies.