To be eligible for a Medicare skilled nursing stay, participants must have Medicare Part A benefits and have been hospitalized for three consecutive nights within the last thirty days.A participant is allowed up to 100 days of skilled nursing per benefit period, if all eligibility and medical criteria are met. Medicare will pay all of the medical charges (including room and meals) for the first twenty days and only partially for the remaining eighty days. The “co-insurance” is the financial responsibility of the resident or responsible party.
Medicare will not cover personal convenience items such as the additional cost of a private room, barber/beauty services, private telephone, or cable television.
