RE: Tubefeeders

[Brenda Chance]

No.  I presume this resident stayed in your facility, so he did not have a 60 day break in skilled level of care.   Brenda W. Chance, RN, RAC-C MDS Coordinator     CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tubefeeders   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.