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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.
Thereâs no lifetime limit for mental health treatment you receive as an inpatient in a general hospital. Medicareâs 60 lifetime reserve days, as explained above, cannot be used to extend the 190-day limit for stays in psychiatric hospitals, but can be used for inpatient mental health treatment in general hospitals.