What is covered by Part A (hospital insurance) of the Original Medicare Plan?
The hospital insurance program is designed to help pay the bills when an insured person is hospitalized. The program also provides payments for required professional services in a skilled nursing facility (but not for custodial care) following a hospital stay, home health services, and hospice care. There is a limit on how many days of hospital or skilled nursing care Medicare helps pay for in each “benefit period.” A benefit period begins the first day a patient receives services in a hospital. It ends after a person has been out of a hospital or other facility primarily providing skilled care for 60 days in a row. Benefits are ordinarily paid only for services received in the United States or Canada. Hospital insurance also covers hospital stays in Mexico under very limited conditions. 6. What are the Medicare Part A deductible and coinsurance charges in 2004 and what will they be in 2005? For the first 60 days in a benefit period, a Medicare patient is responsible for paying a deduc
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