Medicare will pay the full cost of the first 20 days and part of the cost of another 80 days of care in a Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility (SNF) each benefit period as long as it is medically necessary. A benefit period begins the day you start getting inpatient care and ends when you’ve been out of the hospital or skilled nursing facility for 60 days in a row.

For more information on what you pay for Medicare Part A services such as SNF care, click on the link in the GO TO box.

For help paying your out-of-pocket costs for Medicare services, click on the link in the GO TO box.