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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.
For example, suppose you were in the hospital for 105 days. Medicare covers the first 90 days under normal inpatient hospital services, and the remaining 15 days are covered by the lifetime reserve. You would have 45 remaining lifetime reserve days that could be used for another extended hospitalization.