Kot Task 2

Medicare part A is hospital coverage for inpatient hospital stays. More specifically, Part A is coverage for critical access hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and long-term care hospitals. Part A also covers inpatient care in a skilled nursing facility (not supervisory or long-term care), hospice care services and some home health care services. Inpatient care in a Religious Nonmedical Health Care Institution is also covered. In the scenario provided, Mrs. Zwick is admitted to the hospital as an inpatient because she had a stroke. The patient was deemed by the physician to need continued treatment after discharge due to the patient 's condition and was discharged to a skilled nursing facility.
To determine what coverage Mrs. Zwick will receive from Medicare Part A, one must look at the coverage requirements. Due to a stroke, the patient was admitted inpatient and needed critical access to care. The patient was only an impatient at the hospital for five days. These factors fit the criteria for Medicare Part A coverage for a semi-private room, hospital services, meals, nursing, and supplies, and inpatient mental health care (lifetime limit of 190 days). Medicare part A does not pay the annual Part A deductible amount; and the co-insurance amount that is $1,156 per benefit period. Since the patient was admitted for only 5 days, the patient only has to pay one benefit period. If the patient had needed blood, the cost of the first three pints of blood would not be covered. Moreover, if the patient had been traveling abroad no medical expenses would have been covered under Medicare Part A.
For the patient to be eligible for SNF coverage post discharge, the patient had to have either had a qualifying three-day hospital stay or started receiving Medicare-covered SNF care. Because the patient met this criterion, Medicare Part A covered the SNF stay for the first 20 days of her stay based on Medicare Part A coverage stipulations.
What Medicare Part A does

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