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furnish full-time skilled nursing and other health care services. Hospital insurance (Part A) can help pay for services in an extended care facility when a patient’s condition requires this level of skilled nursing and other professional care. These payments are not automatic, though. Medicare cannot help with the bills if a patient goes into an extended care facility simply because he needs help in eating, dressing, getting around, taking medicine, bathing, etc., even if these services are performed by skilled nurses. Skilled care needed on an occasional basis-for example, changing a special dressing once or twice a week-in itself would not qualify him for extended care benefits. Some examples of this type of skilled nursing care meeting Medicare requirements are: a. Medications given by intravenous injections requiring skilled supervision and attention; b. Oral medications which require immediate changes in dosage because of sudden undesirable effects or reactions requiring continuing skilled observations;
c. Continuous use of catheters requiring replacement; or d. Special services in connection with application of dressings involving prescription medications and special techniques. To receive Medicare payments, he must require the kind of care that can be given only by licensed nursing personnel. Such care must be needed on a continuing basis.
Five conditions must be met. The Medicare payments can be
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