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a medicare benefit period begins with the first day of hospitalization and ends when the patient has been out of the hospital for __________ consecutive days.

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60

Step-by-step explanation:

A benefit period begins the day you are admitted to a hospital as an inpatient, or to a SNF, and ends the day you have been out of the hospital or SNF for 60 days in a row.

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