Try: Medicare is restrictive when covering nursing home care medicare will only reimburse care at a skilled nursing facility medicare will pay some nursing home costs for medicare beneficiaries who require skilled nursing or rehabilitation services to be covered you must receive the services from a medicare certified skilled nursing home after a qualifying hospital stay a qualifying hospital stay is the amount of time spent in a hospital just prior to entering a nursing home this is at least three days for the same spell of illness the individual must also receive skilled nursing on a daily basis the nursing home can also be paid for through private funds medicaid or ltc insurance information references medicare gov
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