Re: Tubefeeders

[KDeniseSRN]

Just a question, so please don't bite my head off >GRIN< As if this bunch would. Thank you in advance for your replies?   If you have a resident on Medicare Part A with a Stage IV decub that you can't seem to heal and they used their entire 100 day benefit period. Would you put them back on Medicare Part A if after 70 days from being discharged from Medicare Part A the doctor put the resident in the hospital to repair the same Stage IV decub with a flap and kept them in the hospital for at least 3 midnight's? Would this be the same as the resident being fed via the tube?   ask Sherry Kennedy to show you where the SNF manual was changed, regarding ending a benefit period.  I agree with Holly on this one. In ALL my training from the FI, once a resident reaches a skilled level and stays at a skilled level exhausting all Part A benefits, there are no more Part A days. Part B may be different, but Not Part A.