...it is replaced by a blood plan or through a blood donation in your behalf). BENEFlT PERlODS Medicare Part A benefits are paid on the basis of benefit periods. A benefit period begins the first day you -receive Medicare covered service^in a hospital and ends when you have been out of...

...getting in and out of bed, eating, dressing. bathing and taking medicine. BENEFIT PERIODS Medicare Part A benefits are paid on the basis of benefit periods. A benefit period begins the first day you receive Medicare covered service In a hospital and ends when you have been out of...

...forms of protection: Part A, Hospital Insurance, financed primarily by Social Security payroll taxes, covers inpatient hospital services, posthospital care...provided in patients' homes and by hospices. Part B, Supplementary Medical Insurance, a voluntary program financed by enrollee premiums and federal contributions,...