Home Health Care Services: Alternatives to Institutionalization : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, June 16, 1975 |
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Page 96 - A benefits are available only to a patient who "continues to require skilled nursing services on a continuing basis.
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Page 68 - Some have visitors, but most do not. — Estimates vary, but there is agreement that most nursing home patients do not have visitors. This is because a third or more have no relatives. A comprehensive New Hampshire study disclosed that 42 percent had visitors weekly.
Page 72 - Without objection, your statement will be carried in full in the record, and you may summarize it as you wish. STATEMENT OF PhTEK M.
Page 3 - Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care of the House Select Committee on Aging...
Page 92 - Medicaid provide the same benefits, but the eligibility requirements differ. Medicare Part A is tied into post-hospital care; there is no such requirement for Medicare Part B. Both Medicare Part A and Part B provide for 100 visits, and the visits can be combined under some circumstances so as to provide a total of 200 visits. However, under Part A the 100 visits per year are measured beginning with the termination of a hospital or nursing home stay, while under Part B the 100 visits are based on...
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