Seniors Need Long-Term Care Advice

*For people entitled to Medicare, a benefit period starts the day they enter a hospital for at least three days of covered care and ends when they have been out of the hospital or a skilled nursing facility for 60 consecutive days. A new benefit period begins—and beneficiaries are entitled to another 100 days of long-term care coverage in such a facility—the next time they spend at least three covered days in a hospital. There is no limit to the number of coverage periods beneficiaries can have.