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MEDICARE
Part A INPATIENT HOSPITAL SERVICES Includes semi-private room, special diet, general nursing, drugs and necessary inpatient services for 90 days per "spell of illness”
YOU MUST PAY-first $40 of hospital charges
—$10 per day, 61st—90th day
Medicare does not cover care beyond 90th day
Medicare does not cover care outside U. S.
OUTPATIENT HOSPITAL DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES Includes 80% payment for diagnostic X-ray and laboratory service provided during 20-day period
YOU MUST PAY-first $20 of hospital charges
—20% of the charges OTHER OUTPATIENT HOSPITAL SERVICES
Medicare does not cover
EXTENDED CARE SERVICES Includes up to 100 days in qualified facility after minimum 3-day hospital stay (January 1, 1967)
YOU MUST PAY—$5 per day, 21st-100th day [ HOME HEALTH SERVICES Limited to 100 visits per year by nurse or qualified per-' sonnet after minimum 3-day hospital stay PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL CARE ^ Lifetime maximum of 190 days in qualified facility
^TUBERCULOSIS INSTITUTIONAL CARE Maximum of 90 days per "spell of illness” in qualified facility
, Part B PHYSICIANS’ SERVICES, OTHER MEDICAL SERVICES Includes 80% of reasonable charges for physicians' services, up to 100 home health visits per year, diagnostic tests, X-ray or radium treatments, certain ambulance services, oxygen equipment rental, braces, artificial limbs, prosthetic devices
YOU MUST PAY—first $50 per calendar year
—balance of charges OUT-OF-HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES Limited to $250 during calendar year, or 50% of charges, whichever is smaller
78.2%