Home health care includes a wide range of health and social services delivered in your home to treat illness or injury. Services covered by Medicare’s home health benefit include intermittent skilled nursing care, skilled therapy, and care provided by a home health...
SNF care is post-hospital care provided at a skilled nursing facility. Skilled nursing care includes services such as administration of medications, tube feedings, and wound care. Keep in mind that SNFs can be part of nursing homes or hospitals. Medicare Part A may...
Rehabilitation hospitals are specialty hospitals or parts of acute care hospitals that offer intensive inpatient rehabilitation therapy. You may need inpatient care in a rehabilitation hospital if you are recovering from a serious illness, surgery, or injury and...
Medicare Part A will cover skilled therapy when it is received as an inpatient (formally admitted to a rehabilitation hospital or skilled nursing facility, see Where Are Outpatient Therapy Services Available? and How Do the Costs and Limitations for Medicare-covered...
Original Medicare covers outpatient therapy at 80% of the Medicare-approved amount. When you receive services from a participating provider, you pay a 20% coinsurance after you meet your Part B deductible ($203 in 2021). If you are in a Medicare Advantage Plan, your...
Medicare Part B will cover outpatient therapy services in a doctor’s office, outpatient hospital setting, rehabilitation agency, Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility (CORF), or a public health agency. You can also receive Part B-covered outpatient therapy...
