Original Medicare consists of both Medicare Parts A and B. For Medicare Part A, you will have a $1,484 deductible per benefit period. A benefit period is how Original Medicare measures how you use hospital and skilled nursing facility services.

Your benefit period will start as soon as you’re admitted to a hospital or skilled nursing facility as an inpatient. Your benefit period will then end once you have not received any inpatient care for 60 consecutive days. If you are admitted again after this 60-day period has ended, a new benefit period will begin and you will have to pay another $1,484 deductible.

The Part B deductible is only an annual deductible. For 2021, the Part B deductible is $203.