---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 409.62"
title: "42"
number: "409.62"
heading: "Lifetime maximum on inpatient psychiatric care."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/409.62"
---

# §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.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302 and 1395hh.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 12541, Mar. 25, 1983, unless otherwise noted.