Under Medicare, you have a lifetime reserve of 60 more days of inpatient services after you use the first 90 benefit days. You must pay a fixed amount for each day of service.
Hospitalization (Part A) under Medicare from the 91st day of confinement through the 150th day. This period of consecutive hospitalization is not renewable; once used, the benefit is gone.
In the Original Medicare Plan, 60 days that Medicare will pay for when you are in a hospital more than 90 days during a benefit period. These 60 reserve days can be used only once during your lifetime. For each lifetime reserve day, Medicare pays all covered costs except for a daily coinsurance ($438 in 2004).
Also called "Reserve Days." When you are in the hospital for more than 90 days, Medicare pays for 60 additional reserve days that you can only use once in your lifetime. They are not renewable once you use them.
The days following a 90-day hospitalization. Medicare allows an individual 60 lifetime reserve days per benefit period that may only be used once during an individualâ€(tm)s lifetime. Medicare will pay for lifetime reserve days, whether used at once or over the individual's lifetime. However, the individual must pay for the daily coinsurance of $476 for 2006.
Sixty extra days you may use for hospitalization. You share daily costs with Medicare. These days can be used only after you have stayed more than 90 days in a hospital and can be used only one time.
In the Original Medicare Plan, a total of 60 extra days that Medicare will pay for when an enrollee is in a hospital more than 90 days during a benefit period. Once these 60 reserve days are used, the citizen does not get any more extra days during his or her lifetime. For each lifetime reserve day, Medicare pays all covered costs except for a daily coinsurance.
A Medicare term specifying the number of days of in-patient hospital care available over an individual's lifetime that may be used after the maximum 90 days allowed in a single benefit period have been exhausted.