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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.
In calendar year 2003, approximately. 37,000 beneficiaries used 1 or more of their lifetime reserve days. Based on self-reported information from a random sample of. 147 hospitals, 86 percent of hospitals provide written and/or verbal. notices about lifetime reserve days to beneficiaries who have used or. will use 90 days of benefits, while 14 percent do not.