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Long-Term Care

WebMD Medical Reference

Long-term care refers to social, medical and personal services for people who need help for a long time due to old age or disability. Medicare covers medical needs, but does not pay for social and personal services such as:

• Bathing


• Dressing


• Eating


• Moving around


• Using the bathroom

What Medicare Covers

Skilled Nursing Facility Care

• Medicare helps to pay for your recovery in a skilled nursing facility after a three-day hospital stay. For more details on what this includes and what it costs, see What Does Medicare Cover?


• Medicare will cover the cost of skilled nursing care for a maximum of 100 days. As soon as you no longer need daily skilled nursing care, Medicare stops paying.

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