Bjmpittsburgh,

Here is the Survivorship Guidelines from the American Cancer Society. I tried to forward earlier, but I lost most of my high speed data for my iPhone while in rehabilitative nursing care for almost two months, and was working like a snail.

Speaking of such, I went to rehab after my 7 day hospital stay after surgery on 9/9/16. With Medicare, at least, you have to be hospitalized 3 days to go into inpatient rehabilitative nursing care. I'm sure there are other qualifications, like some pertaining to your care at home situation, mobility, house steps, etc. when the social worker speaks with you.

Now that I'm discharged, upon my early request, I can go to outpatient Speech and Swallow Therapy based on the incident, surgery, even though I may have used up my yearly allocation.

Another thing I was going to mention was the doctors themselves. Not as much as my cancer doctors, but private primary care doctors that didn't want to send you for any testing, rehab, or much else going back a decade. I was told that there are some doctors that get paid by the insurance company, forget what it's called, if they save such services. I never fully looked into it, but I did change my doctor.

American Cancer Society Head and Neck Cancer Survivorship for Clinicians:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/stor...5d5a072e8542d6fcb6afa50a6c9f1d86699f2b9f

This is the PDF highlight update for the 2016 version for NCCN Survivorship for Clinicians. You can also see it on NCCN website, which I have, including an App, which is pretty comprehensive, but you need to join, it's free. This I can't make a copy of:

http://www.jnccn.org/content/14/6/715.full.pdf

Here is the Medicare part B Cap for Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech and Swallow Pathology:

https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/pt-and-ot-and-speech-language-pathology.html

All the best