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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.
Lifetime reserve days refer to the number of days of hospital treatment a health insurance policy covers over its lifetime after the policyholder uses up the allotted amount per benefit period. Typically, a policy would allow for 90 days of hospital treatment per coverage period and 30 days in lifetime reserve days.