Medicare Part A: What will Medicare Part A cover in 2022?

As 2022 gets ever closer, many senior citizens in the United States of America will be wondering how this impacts Medicare and whether there will be any changes.

The usual requirements for Medicare Part A do not appear to have changed, but the differences come largely with the finances involved.

What does Medicare Part A cover?

Those people who have Medicare Part A coverage will be supported in terms of inpatient hospital, skilled nursing facility, hospice, inpatient rehabilitation, and some home health care services.

Medicare Part A deductible

Beneficiaries of Medicare Part A will have to pay $1,556 in 2022 for inpatient hospital stays, which is a rise of $72 from $1,484 in 2021.

This covers the beneficiaries’ share of the costs for the first 60 days of Medicare-covered impatient hospital care in a benefit period.

There are slight rises in the coinsurance amount and lifetime reserve days too, as in 2022 beneficiaries must shell out $389 ($371 in 2021) per day for the 61st until the 90th day of hospitalization as part of the coinsurance amount, while lifetime reserve days will cost $778 per day ($742 in 2021).

Those beneficiaries in skilled nursing facilities will have to pay $194.50 in 2022 ($185.50 in 2021) for daily coinsurance for days 21 through 100 when it comes to extended care services in a benefit period.