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2021 Medicare Costs & Premiums

Published by Mike Lovell on

2021 Medicare Costs & Premiums

Changes to 2021 Medicare costs and premiums was just announced in early November.

Medicare Part B

The 2021 Medicare Part B premium is increasing from $144.60 per month in 2020 to $148.50 in 2021.

The Medicare Part B deductible is a once per calendar year deductible.  The amount of that deductible is $198 in 2020 but it is increasing to $203 in 2021.

Medicare Part A

There continues to be no premium for Medicare Pare A for most people.

The Medicare Part A deductible is increasing from $1,408 in 2020 to $1,484 in 2021.  Remember, this is a per period deductible so it’s possible to pay this multiple times per year.

After meeting that deductible, there is no coinsurance for days 1-60 of each benefit period in the hospital.  For days 61-90, the daily copay amount is increasing from $352 in 2020 to $371 in 2021.

Your 60 lifetime reserve days beyond that 90 period in the hospital is increasing the daily copay from $704 per day to $742 per day.

The last change to Part A is the daily copay for days 21-100 in a skilled nursing facility.  The daily copay is increasing from $176 per day in 2020 to $185.50 per day in 2021.  Remember, there is no coinsurance for days 1-20 in a Medicare covered skilled nursing facility stay.

How big are these changes?

Overall these changes are pretty reasonable.  The premium for part B is only increasing $3.90 per month which is an increase of 2.7%.

The Medicare Part B deductible is only increasing by $5 which is 2.5%.

Obviously we would love to see prices stay the same but that’s just not reality.  So an increase of less than 3% is always good news.

If you want to see if there are other ways to save money on your health insurance, please call me, Medicare Mike, right away at 855-712-7316.

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