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Medicare Part A Helps Cover Your Medically-Necessary . . .
| Blood |
Pints of blood you get at a hospital or skilled nursing facility during a covered stay |
| Home Health Services |
Limited to reasonable and necessary part-time or intermittent skilled nursing care and home health aide services, and physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology ordered by your doctor and provided by a Medicare-certified home health agency. Also includes medical social services, other services, durable medical equipment (such as wheelchairs, hospital beds, oxygen, and walkers), and medical supplies for use at home. |
| Hospice Care |
For people with a terminal illness (less than six months to live). Includes drugs for symptom control and pain relief, medical and support services from a Medicare-approved hospice, and other services not otherwise covered by Medicare (like grief counseling). Hospice care is usually given in your home (may include a nursing facility if this is your home). However, Medicare covers some short-term hospital and inpatient respite care (care given to a hospice patient so that the usual caregiver can rest). |
| Hospital Stays |
Semiprivate room, meals, general nursing, and other hospital services and supplies. This includes inpatient care you get in Critical Access Hospitals and mental health care. This doesn't include private-duty nursing or a television or telephone in your room. It also doesn't include a private room, unless Medically Necessary. Inpatient mental health care in a psychiatric hospital is limited to 190 days in a lifetime. |
| Skilled Nursing Facility Care |
Semiprivate room, meals, skilled nursing and rehabilitative services, and other services and supplies (only after a three-day inpatient hospital stay for a related illness or injury) for up to 100 days in a Benefit Period. Note: Medicare doesn't cover Long-term Care. |
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(Primary Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Medicare and You Handbook 2007. This content may have been added upon by Q1Group LLC to include further examples, explanations, and links.)
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Last updated on: 07/05/2009
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