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Home > Blog > Understanding the Costs You Pay With Medicare
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2023

Understanding the Costs You Pay With Medicare

Medicare enables millions of senior citizens and other qualifying Americans to receive crucial health insurance benefits. However, while it can considerably reduce the costs of your medical care, it does not eliminate them. Therefore, Medicare will lead to out-of-pocket expenses for both the policy itself and for the services you receive. Let’s take a closer look at these. 
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1. Premiums 


Your Medicare premium is the price you pay for coverage. However, depending on the structure of your benefits, your premium might differ. For example, if you are an Original Medicare recipient, then you will typically pay $0 for your Part A coverage, while your Part B coverage will have at least a $148.50 premium through 2021. Part B premiums vary by income level, however, so your cost might be more depending on your income in your tax filing. 


2. Deductible 


Under Original Medicare, deductibles will be costs that you must pay yourself before your policy covers certain care. In 2021, the Medicare Part A and Part B deductibles are $1,484 and $203 respectively. However, not all types of care are subject to your deductible. Therefore, you won’t have to pay this cost for many types of routine care and preventive services. 


3. Coinsurance 


After you have met your deductible, you will face a coinsurance requirement for certain care. Under coinsurance, your policy agrees to pay for a percentage of your care cost (typically 80%) and you pay the rest. Therefore, if a certain treatment costs $200, then you will pay $40 for your care while your Medicare will pay the remaining $160. 


4. Copayments 


Alongside your coinsurance, you might also be required to pay a copayment for certain inpatient or outpatient services. This is a nominal fee charged by the medical provider at the time you receive care. 


If you are concerned about the additional cost burdens set by Medicare’s pricing rules, then you might be able to enroll in a separate type of coverage called a Medigap plan. These supplemental policies are private plans that will help you cover coinsurance, copayments and deductibles, and therefore can significantly reduce your cost-sharing burden. They are particularly beneficial to those who might have a lot of medical expenses, and the premium of your Medigap plan is likely to be far less than any additional expenses that you might have to pay if you went without this benefit. 


All in all, the exact pricing of certain medical care will be subject to various rules under Medicare regulations. To receive optimized costs on all your medical care, you must visit providers who accept Medicare as a form of payment. Therefore, you won’t run the risk of receiving unexpected medical bills that you thought your insurance would have covered. 
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