[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR409.27]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
                             HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 409--HOSPITAL INSURANCE BENEFITS--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart C--Posthospital SNF Care
 
Sec. 409.27  Other services generally provided by (or under arrangements made by) SNFs.

    In addition to those services specified in Secs. 409.21 through 
409.26, Medicare pays as posthospital SNF care for such other diagnostic 
and therapeutic services as are generally provided by (or under 
arrangements made by) SNFs, including--
    (a) Medical and other health services as described in subpart B of 
part 410 of this chapter, subject to any applicable limitations or 
exclusions contained in that subpart or in Sec. 409.20(b);
    (b) Respiratory therapy services prescribed by a physician for the 
assessment, diagnostic evaluation, treatment, management, and monitoring 
of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities of cardiopulmonary 
function; and
    (c) Transportation by ambulance that meets the general medical 
necessity requirements set forth in Sec. 410.40(d)(1) of this chapter.

[63 FR 26307, May 12, 1998, as amended at 64 FR 41681, July 30, 1999]