{"id":253,"date":"2010-01-14T16:46:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T16:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connecticutelderlawblog.wordpress.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2014-11-07T20:51:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T00:51:38","slug":"medicare-eligibility-in-a-skilled-nursing-facility-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/medicare-eligibility-in-a-skilled-nursing-facility-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Eligibility in a Skilled Nursing Facility &#8211; 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Medicare Eligibility in a Skilled Nursing Facility:<\/strong><br \/>\n(All five criteria must be met.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Must be a hospital inpatient for three or more consecutive days, NOT including the day of discharge.<\/li>\n<li>A physician must indicate skilled care is needed on a daily basis.<\/li>\n<li>Care in the skilled nursing facility is due to a condition that was treated in the hospital.<\/li>\n<li>Care must be provided in a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility.<\/li>\n<li>Coverage for skilled nursing facility days are available (coverage limits have not yet been reached) under Medicare Part A.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Medicare benefits in a Skilled Nursing Facility:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First 20 days Medicare pays entire cost.<\/li>\n<li>Next 80 days patient pays $137.50 per day and Medicare pays the rest.<\/li>\n<li>After 100 days patient pays the entire cost.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare Eligibility in a Skilled Nursing Facility: (All five criteria must be met.) Must be a hospital inpatient for three or more consecutive days, NOT including the day of discharge. A physician must indicate skilled care is needed on a daily basis. Care in the skilled nursing facility is due to a condition that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,90],"tags":[264,63,136],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare","category-nursing-home","tag-medicare","tag-nursing-homes","tag-skilled-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliambrown.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}