Did you know that you can't go to a nursing home on Medicare,even if you have lots of lifetimes days left, unless you are expected to improve? My husband could not go to nursing home in 2009, even though he had many days left. He had to go to hospice. They said I had to pay for hospice, which was a lie; I found out later that hospice is covered under Medicare for six months. But he died just as I was to take him to hospice.