Part 409 - Hospital Insurance Benefits  


Subpart A - Hospital Insurance Benefits: General Provisions
§ 409.1 - Statutory basis.
§ 409.2 - Scope.
§ 409.3 - Definitions.
§ 409.5 - General description of benefits.
Subpart B - Inpatient Hospital Services and Inpatient Critical Access Hospital Services
§ 409.10 - Included services.
§ 409.11 - Bed and board.
§ 409.12 - Nursing and related services, medical social services; use of hospital or CAH facilities.
§ 409.13 - Drugs and biologicals.
§ 409.14 - Supplies, appliances, and equipment.
§ 409.15 - Services furnished by an intern or a resident-in-training.
§ 409.16 - Other diagnostic or therapeutic services.
§ 409.17 - Physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology services.
§ 409.18 - Services related to kidney transplantations.
§ 409.19 - Services related to cardiac pacemakers and pacemaker leads.
Subpart C - Posthospital SNF Care
§ 409.20 - Coverage of services.
§ 409.21 - Nursing care.
§ 409.22 - Bed and board.
§ 409.23 - Physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology services.
§ 409.24 - Medical social services.
§ 409.25 - Drugs, biologicals, supplies, appliances, and equipment.
§ 409.26 - Transfer agreement hospital services.
§ 409.27 - Other services generally provided by (or under arrangements made by) SNFs.
Subpart D - Requirements for Coverage of Posthospital SNF Care
§ 409.30 - Basic requirements.
§ 409.31 - Level of care requirement.
§ 409.32 - Criteria for skilled services and the need for skilled services.
§ 409.33 - Examples of skilled nursing and rehabilitation services.
§ 409.34 - Criteria for “daily basis”.
§ 409.35 - Criteria for “practical matter”.
§ 409.36 - Effect of discharge from posthospital SNF care.
Subpart E - Home Health Services Under Hospital Insurance
§ 409.40 - Basis, purpose, and scope.
§ 409.41 - Requirement for payment.
§ 409.42 - Beneficiary qualifications for coverage of services.
§ 409.43 - Plan of care requirements.
§ 409.44 - Skilled services requirements.
§ 409.45 - Dependent services requirements.
§ 409.46 - Allowable administrative costs.
§ 409.47 - Place of service requirements.
§ 409.48 - Visits.
§ 409.49 - Excluded services.
§ 409.50 - Coinsurance for durable medical equipment (DME) and applicable disposable devices furnished as a home health service.
Subpart F - Scope of Hospital Insurance Benefits
§ 409.60 - Benefit periods.
§ 409.61 - General limitations on amount of benefits.
§ 409.62 - Lifetime maximum on inpatient psychiatric care.
§ 409.63 - Reduction of inpatient psychiatric benefit days available in the initial benefit period.
§ 409.64 - Services that are counted toward allowable amounts.
§ 409.65 - Lifetime reserve days.
§ 409.66 - Revocation of election not to use lifetime reserve days.
§ 409.68 - Guarantee of payment for inpatient hospital or inpatient CAH services furnished before notification of exhaustion of benefits.
Subpart G - Hospital Insurance Deductibles and Coinsurance
§ 409.80 - Inpatient deductible and coinsurance: General provisions.
§ 409.82 - Inpatient hospital deductible.
§ 409.83 - Inpatient hospital coinsurance.
§ 409.85 - Skilled nursing facility (SNF) care coinsurance.
§ 409.87 - Blood deductible.
§ 409.89 - Exemption of kidney donors from deductible and coinsurance requirements.
Subpart H - Payment of Hospital Insurance Benefits
§ 409.100 - To whom payment is made.
§ 409.102 - Amounts of payment.