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Lifetime reserve days. (Redirected from Lifetime Reserve Days) Lifetime reserve days are additional days that the United States health care system Medicare Part A will pay for when a beneficiary is in a hospital for more than 90 days during a benefit period. Beneficiaries are limited to a total of 60 reserve days over the course of their life.
(a)Election not to use lifetime reserve days. ( 1 1) Whenever a beneficiary has exhausted the 90 regular benefit days, the hospital or CAH may bill Medicare for lifetime reserve days unless the beneficiary elects not to use them or, in accordance with paragraph (b) of this section, is deemed to have elected not to use them.