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What's Covered. There are two different types of inpatient nursing and rehabilitation care that Medicare Part A covers, each under a different set of rules and limitations. A patient's stay must begin within 30 days of an inpatient hospital stay of at least three days. The patient must need, and have a physician's prescription for, daily skilled nursing care or physical rehabilitation. Care must be in a Medicare-certified skilled nursing or rehabilitation facility.
1 However, custodial long-term nursing home care is not covered.  Medicare will pay for hospice care delivered in the home, a nursing facility or an inpatient hospice facility for people with dementia who are determined by a doctor to be near the end of life.