Lifetime reserve days

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Lifetime reserve days are additional days that the United States health care system Medicare Part A will pay for when a beneficiary is in a hospital for more than 90 days during a benefit period.^[1] Beneficiaries are limited to a total of 60 reserve days over the course of their life.^[2]