Congress added the hospice benefit to Medicare's range of cover in 1982, and extended the benefit period in 1989.
Once 20 days have passed, you must pay a hefty co-insurance amount for days 21 through 100 for each benefit period.
Assuming you qualify, Medicare may pay up to 100% of your costs in a nursing home for the first 20 days in a benefit period.
It remains a maximum of 100 days per benefit period.
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Analysts expected claims to increase by 9, 000 to 400, 000 for the week, leading to some questions about what a large number of unemployed Americans have done: whether it be giving up on looking for work, coming to the end of their unemployment benefit period, or indeed, found jobs.
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But other buy-out firms considering the same move, and that have not yet established its type of partnership, will not benefit from the grace period.
There is no doubt that the company has weathered a difficult period and should benefit from sustained growth in its asset base.
Shortening the period of entitlement to unemployment benefit, for instance, would only bring it back to the position in 1985, hardly as radical a move as it first appears.
So, while Samsung benefited from its new product introduction over the summer, Apple will benefit from its iPhone 5 release in this period.
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Current sentences often send non-violent, first time offenders to prison for decades, so there is no Act that would benefit society or the person imprisoned for that period of time.
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While a 2006 French study found that people with diets high in beta-carotene had a slower decline in lung function over an eight-year period, heavy smokers and drinkers may not benefit.
And second, our policies benefit every American who wants to pursue the American dream, period.
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Like-for-like or underlying sales rose 0.9% in the period, or 0.4% excluding the benefit of enlarging some stores.
Millions of existing benefit claimants will be transferred onto the new system over a period of about four years, with the expectation that most people will apply for them and manage them online.
Plus, successful clinical trials of new drugs routinely show a benefit on such metrics over a 1- or 2-year period.
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The research follows on from a previous trial carried out by the same team, which focused on testing the benefit of cannabis derivatives over a 15-week and 12-month period.
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Patent law gives inventors the exclusive rights to use or license their inventions, for a fixed period of time, to encourage disclosure and allow them to benefit from and recoup the cost of their invention.
Will, for example, a two-year trial demonstrate sufficient benefit when the rate of decline in patients might occur over a 10-year period?
However, we found no significant interaction between the period of trial enrollment (before vs. after the protocol change) and the benefit in the Mediterranean-diet groups.
Particularly in a period of budgetary austerity, there is no alternative to such an approach if the maximum benefit is to be obtained from each defense dollar spent.
And if Iraq were to become the kind of democracy that is the kind wrongly presumed (and for more than a short period), there is no evidence whatsoever that other Arab or Islamic states, without benefit of occupying armies, would follow.
It added 87% of benefit and pensioners already had a bank account and that changes will take place over a two-year period.
The benefit in favor of the Mediterranean diet groups occurred early in the trial and continued throughout the follow-up period.
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Effective September 30, 2002, the agencies will enter payroll benefit data to the Internet Fiduciary Confirmation System (IFCS) within 15 days after the end of each reporting period.
Relatively well-off farmers who wanted the benefit of radio programs from the outside world could take batteries into town where they could be charged over a period of a couple of days, much as people journey to distant towns in Africa today to charge their cell phones at great expense.
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It turned out that the average impact of the period of hostilities and post-hostilities was more or less flat, so there may be a net benefit to investing in conflict countries once their wars have commenced if stock prices have fallen dramatically even if a finite end is not yet in sight.
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