Social Security, Medicare and Government Pensions by Attorney Joseph L. Matthews
Author:Attorney Joseph L. Matthews
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781413323566
Publisher: NOLO
Published: 2017-01-26T08:00:00+00:00
• rehabilitation services, such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech language pathology services (speech therapy) provided while you are in the hospital or nursing facility.
Medicare Part A hospital insurance does not cover:
• personal convenience items such as television, radio, or telephone
• private duty nurses, or
• a private room, when not medically necessary.
Levels of Nursing Facility Care
Most nursing facilities provide what is called custodial care—primarily personal, nonmedical care for people who are no longer able to fully care for themselves. Custodial care often lasts months or years, and is not covered at all by Medicare. For the most part, custodial care amounts to assistance with the tasks of daily life: eating, dressing, bathing, moving around, and some recreation. It usually involves some health-related matters: monitoring and assisting with medication and providing some exercise or physical therapy. But it is ordinarily provided mostly by personnel who are not highly trained health professionals, and does not involve any significant treatment for illness or physical condition.
A different, short-term kind of care known as skilled nursing facility care is covered by Medicare, although there are severe limits. (See “How Much Medicare Part A Pays,” below, regarding these limits.) Skilled nursing facility care, which takes place in a hospital’s extended care wing or in a separate nursing facility, provides high levels of medical and nursing care, 24-hour monitoring, and intensive rehabilitation. It is intended to follow acute hospital care due to serious illness, injury, or surgery—and usually lasts only a matter of days or weeks.
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