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Medicare has a provision of Lifetime Reserve Days. Medicare recipients have a total of 60 of these days available to be used only once in the recipientsâ lifetime. The Medicare entitlement for in-patient care is limited to 90 days per benefit period. At the end of this period the must leave the hospital.
1 However, Medicare allows you a further 60 days of âlifetime reserveâ days. 2  This means that for the rest of your life you can draw on any of these 60 daysâbut no moreâto extend Medicare coverage in any benefit period. 3  In 2014, your share of the cost is $608 a day.