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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 Beneficiaries are also entitled to a lifetime reserve of 60 additional days. 2  If those reserve days are also used, beneficiaries must pay $630/day in 2015 (up from $608/day in 2014) for days 91 to 150.