And Medicare imposes a 190-day lifetime limit for psychiatric hospital stays but none for general inpatient care.
"If the search extended beyond the 30-day lifetime of the ultrasonic locator beacon, the recorders might never be found".
Without parity, the middle-class parents of a newly psychotic 19-year-old son, say, might discover they have a 30-day lifetime limit on psychiatric hospitalization; that limit might be reached before his illness is even diagnosed, much less treated.
On Thursday, Lifetime rolled out "Million Dollar Shoppers," a braying reality show about gratingly annoying people who shop for some of the New York area's super-rich.
But the Saturday Lifetime telefilm "House of Versace," based on Deborah Ball's book of the same name about the empire built by Gianni Versace and continued after his death by his sister, Donatella, operates at barely a whisper.
On Monday Lifetime's original movie "Dawn Anna," with the formerly retired Debra Winger, below, playing a mother whose daughter died in the Columbine killings, brought in an audience of 4.4 million.
Last Monday, Lifetime's movie "Murder in the Hamptons," a fictional account of the sensational 2001 murder of Ted Ammon rendered as the film equivalent of a beach-read, drew an estimated 4.8 million viewers.
It has been 25 years since the iconic TV show Saved by the Bell premiered, and on Tuesday, Lifetime released the trailer of its upcoming movie, which vows to expose what went on behind the scenes of filming the hormone-fuelled show.
During its programmed 60-day lifetime, the buoy recorded sonar beeps from fixed sound sources.
On Monday, Lifetime announced that it would be making "The Unauthorized Full House Story," a tell-all TV movie in the vein of its much-maligned "The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story".
On Wednesday, Lifetime released a trailer for "Untouchable," the network's upcoming film based on the life story of former Bolingbrook police sergeant and murder suspect Drew Peterson, who will be played on the silver screen by Rob Lowe.
