Overview

This lesson provides an overview of hospital, emergency, SNF, and home health care beneficiary rights and protections.

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe a beneficiary's right to receive hospital care
• Describe a beneficiary's right to receive emergency and urgently needed care
• Differentiate between SNF rights under the Original Medicare Plan and Medicare + Choice plans
• Describe a beneficiary's right to receive home health care
• Locate additional resources related to rights and protections for people with Medicare

During this lesson, you will meet several Medicare beneficiaries who need to know about their rights and protections.