WAC 182-500-0015 Medical assistance definitions -- B.

"Benefit package" means the set of healthcare service categories included in a client's eligibility program. See the table in WAC 388-501-0060.

     "Benefit period" means the time period used in determining whether medicare can pay for covered Part A services. A benefit period begins the first day a beneficiary is furnished inpatient hospital or extended care services by a qualified provider. The benefit period ends when the beneficiary has not been an inpatient of a hospital or other facility primarily providing skilled nursing or rehabilitation services for sixty consecutive days. There is no limit to the number of benefit periods a beneficiary may receive. Benefit period also means a "spell of illness" for medicare payments.

     "Blind" is a category of medical program eligibility that requires a central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with the use of a correcting lens, or a field of vision limitation so the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty degrees from central.

     "By report (BR)" means a method of payment in which the agency or the agency's designee determines the amount it will pay for a service when the rate for that service is not included in the agency's or the agency's designee(s) published fee schedules. The provider must submit a "report" which describes the nature, extent, time, effort and/or equipment necessary to deliver the service.