Will Medicare pay for a nursing home?

Medicare is a government entitlement program that pays for care at a skilled nursing home for a limited timeframe. So Medicare will not pay for care at an assisted living facility. Medicare will pay for long-term care at a skilled nursing facility if you have a three-day inpatient hospital stay and then you’re directly discharged to a skilled nursing facility. So with the nursing home benefit for Medicare, it’s very important to note that that is an inpatient requirement. So you cannot be on observation status and have Medicare pay for your care. And many times we do have people who have to go to the hospital, and the hospital doesn’t admit them, but merely puts them on observation status.

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