Question juridique clé
Whether acute hospital treatment remained necessary after 1 October 2007 under the compulsory health insurance tariff rules.
Solution extraite
No. The available evidence did not show that the required treatment had to be provided under acute hospital conditions; it could be continued in a suitable long-term care setting.
Motifs extraits
Acute hospital necessity requires treatment that can only be properly carried out in a hospital because of the needed medical and nursing resources. The doctors did not convincingly explain which treatments exceeded nursing-home capacities. Subsequent improvement did not establish earlier acute-care necessity.