Medicare does cover skilled nursing care for up to 100 days, but only under limited circumstances, such as when you've just ...

“Convalescent home” is another term for skilled nursing facility (SNF). A person may require a stay in an SNF when they are ready to leave the hospital but not quite ready to return home. Medicare ...

Convalescent homes, also called skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), are inpatient care facilities where you can receive continued care from healthcare professionals after a hospital stay. The cost of a ...

To qualify for home healthcare under Medicare, you’ll need to show that you are “homebound” due to illness and injury via a doctor’s examination and recommendation. However, you’ll first need to be ...

Sometimes, a person may need intermittent or temporary home healthcare, such as after a hospital stay when they still require a certain amount of care. Medicare Part A covers home healthcare after ...

Dear Toni: My husband recently fell from a ladder, shattered his hip and broke his right leg. After having emergency surgery, Jim is staying in a skilled nursing facility for his rehabilitation to ...