{"id":25253,"date":"2025-12-08T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25253"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:05:36","slug":"the-inpatient-hospital-deductible-for-part-a-is-increasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25253","title":{"rendered":"The inpatient hospital deductible for Part A is increasing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Medicare Part A covers inpatient hospital, skilled nursing facility, hospice, inpatient rehabilitation, and some home health care services. The Medicare Part A inpatient hospital deductible that beneficiaries pay if admitted to the hospital will be $1,736 in 2026. The Part A inpatient hospital deductible covers beneficiaries\u2019 share of costs for the first 60 days of Medicare-covered inpatient hospital care in a benefit period. Maurie Backman, writing for The Motley Fool, explains what seniors need to know about Medicare Part A costs in 2026. Read Ms. Backman\u2019s article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Medicare Part A covers inpatient hospital, skilled nursing facility, hospice, inpatient rehabilitation, and some home health care services. The Medicare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6],"tags":[80,385,61,1970,94],"class_list":["post-25253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-part-a-deductible","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25254,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25253\/revisions\/25254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}