Medicare Part A Helps Cover Your Medically-Necessary

Inpatient Hospital Stays
Semiprivate room, meals, general nursing, and other hospital services and supplies.

Part A does not cover private-duty nursing or a television or telephone in your room. It also doesn’t include a private room, unless medically necessary.

Inpatient mental health care in a psychiatric hospital is limited to 190 days in a lifetime.

Skilled Nursing Facility Care (only after a related 3-day stay at an inpatient hospital)
Semiprivate room, meals, skilled nursing and rehabilitative services, and other services and supplies for up to 100 days in a benefit period.

Home Health Services
Limited to reasonable and necessary part-time or intermittent skilled nursing care and home health aide services, and physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology ordered by your doctor and provided by a Medicare-certified home health agency.

Also includes medical social services, other services, durable medical equipment (such as wheelchairs, hospital beds, oxygen, and walkers), and medical supplies for use at home.

Hospice Care (for people with a terminal illness)
Includes drugs for symptom control and pain relief, medical and support services from a Medicare-approved hospice, and other services not otherwise covered by Medicare (like grief counseling).