Regulations last checked for updates: Jun 13, 2024

Title 42 - Public Health last revised: Jun 07, 2024
§ 409.62 - Lifetime maximum on inpatient psychiatric care.

There is a lifetime maximum of 190 days on inpatient psychiatric hospital services available to any beneficiary. Therefore, once an individual receives benefits for 190 days of care in a psychiatric hospital, no further benefits of that type are available to that individual.

authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302 and 1395hh
source: 48 FR 12541, Mar. 25, 1983, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 42 CFR 409.62