Department of Health and Human Services--Medicare program; inpatient hospital deductible for 1982. General notice.
This notice announces Medicare's inpatient hospital deductible and coinsurance amounts for calendar year 1982. The Medicare statute specifies the formula the Secretary uses to determine these amounts. The inpatient hospital deductible will be $260. The daily coinsurance amounts will be: (a) $65 for the 61st through 90th days of hospitalization; (b) $130 for lifetime reserve days; and (c) $32.50 for the 21st-through the 100th days of post-hospital extended care services in a skilled nursing facility. Each figure represents an increase of approximately 27 percent over the corresponding 1981 figure. This notice also applies two new rules from sections 2131 and 2132 of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981, Public Law 97-35, concerning the inpatient hospital deductible and coinsurance amounts.
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