Re: Tubefeeders

[Holly Sox, RN, RAC-C]

If the resident exhausted 100 days benefit period, and never healed the wound, and was receiving the same daily skilled services (wound care, dressing changes or assessment and monitoring, whatever..) then she would not have ended the benefit period.   Holly ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:53 AM 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.