quote:

SKILLED NURSING FACILITY CARE
Semi-private room, meals, skilled nursing and rehabilitative services and other services and supplies (only after a 3 day minimum inpatient hospital stay for a related illness or injury) for up to 100 days in a benefit period. To get care in a SNF, you must need skilled care like IV injections or physical therapy. Medicare doesn't cover long-term care or custodial care in this setting.

quote:

DEFINITION OF BENEFIT PERIOD
A benefit period begins the day you go to a hospital or SNF. The benefit period ends when you haven't received any inpatient hospital care (or skilled care in a SNF) for 60 days in a row. If you go into a hospital or SNF after one benefit period has ended, a new benefit period begins. You must pay the inpatient hospital deductible for each benefit period. There is no limit to the number of benefit periods.