Most Medicare beneficiaries will keep paying the same monthly premium for outpatient care next year, the Obama administration said Tuesday.
But new beneficiaries will pay a larger amount, and upper-income retirees are looking at considerably higher charges.
Separately, all beneficiaries face a $19 increase in the Part B deductible — the amount they pay for outpatient care each year before Medicare kicks in. That's rising to $166 next year, from the current $147 — the first such increase since 2013.
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