Mr. Rainey is experiencing paranoid delusions and his physician feels that he should be hospitalized.

Mr. Rainey is experiencing paranoid delusions and his physician feels that he should be hospitalized. What should you tell Mr. Rainey (or his representative) about the length of an inpatient psychiatric hospital stay that Medicare will cover?

Federal medical insurance will cover 190 days of prolonged psychotic thinking during Mr. Rainey's entire lifetime.