Where Next Year's Medicare Part B Rates Are Announced

The cited Federal Register notices record Medicare Part B monthly actuarial rates, premium rates, and annual deductibles for benefit years 2022 through 2026. For 2026, the notice is titled “Medicare Program; Medicare Part B Monthly Actuarial Rates, Premium Rates, and Annual Deductible Beginning January 1, 2026”. The five records display publication dates from late September through mid-November.

This original record-reading guide is a general reading aid, not cited evidence. It does not depict a source record; the article text and source links provide the facts.

Key points

• The 2026 rates were published as “A Notice by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on 11/19/2025”, carrying “Document Number: 2025-20251” and “Document Citation: 90 FR 52063” and “Agency/Docket Number: CMS-8091-N” (same source).
• This is one annual notice type, always titled “Medicare Program; Medicare Part B Monthly Actuarial Rates, Premium Rates, and Annual Deductible Beginning January 1, [year]” — the bracketed year identifies which year’s rates it sets, not when it was published.
• The notice’s publication date is not fixed to a single point on the calendar: across the five most recent editions it fell on 11/19/2025, 11/14/2024, 10/17/2023, 09/29/2022, and 11/17/2021 style dates spanning late September to mid-November.
• A reader who wants to check for next year’s figures should search the Federal Register for the current title phrase with the upcoming year, rather than watching for one habitual date.

Notice Figures 2026

The governing record for 2026 is the Federal Register document titled “Medicare Program; Medicare Part B Monthly Actuarial Rates, Premium Rates, and Annual Deductible Beginning January 1, 2026”. It is identified as “A Notice by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on 11/19/2025” and carries its own fixed identifiers: “Document Number: 2025-20251,” “Publication Date: 11/19/2025,” “Document Citation: 90 FR 52063,” and “Agency/Docket Number: CMS-8091-N” (all from the same 2026 notice page). Those four identifiers — document number, publication date, citation, and docket number — are what make this specific filing verifiable and distinct from every other year’s notice.

Notice publication history

The five cited notices use the same title phrase with different benefit years and display different publication dates:

• 2026 rates: “Medicare Program; Medicare Part B Monthly Actuarial Rates, Premium Rates, and Annual Deductible Beginning January 1, 2026”, “Document Number: 2025-20251,” “Publication Date: 11/19/2025,” “Document Citation: 90 FR 52063.”
• 2025 rates: “Medicare Program; Medicare Part B Monthly Actuarial Rates, Premium Rates, and Annual Deductible Beginning January 1, 2025 — Document Number: 2024-26474 — Publication Date: 11/14/2024 — Citation: 89 FR 90002” (source).
• 2024 rates: “Medicare Program; Medicare Part B Monthly Actuarial Rates, Premium Rates, and Annual Deductible Beginning January 1, 2024 — Document Number: 2023-22823 — Publication Date: 10/17/2023 — Citation: 88 FR 71555” (source).
• 2023 rates: “Medicare Program; Medicare Part B Monthly Actuarial Rates, Premium Rates, and Annual Deductible Beginning January 1, 2023 — Document Number: 2022-21090 — Publication Date: 09/29/2022 — Citation: 87 FR 59080” (source).
• 2022 rates: “Medicare Program; Medicare Part B Monthly Actuarial Rates, Premium Rates, and Annual Deductible Beginning January 1, 2022 — Document Number: 2021-25050 — Publication Date: 11/17/2021 — Citation: 86 FR 64205” (source).

The five displayed publication dates are 11/19/2025, 11/14/2024, 10/17/2023, 09/29/2022, and 11/17/2021. They span late September to mid-November.

Shared record title

Each cited title contains the phrase “Medicare Program; Medicare Part B Monthly Actuarial Rates, Premium Rates, and Annual Deductible Beginning January 1” followed by its applicable year. Each notice page also displays its own document number, publication date, and citation; the 2026 page, for example, displays “Document Number: 2025-20251,” “Publication Date: 11/19/2025,” and “Document Citation: 90 FR 52063.”

What this article does not answer

This article identifies where and under what title and document identifiers next year’s Part B premium and deductible are announced; it does not state any individual’s actual Part B premium dollar amount, since income-related adjustments and any late-enrollment premium increase apply separately from the base rates set in these notices. It does not address Medicare Part A, Part C, or Part D premiums, deductibles, or rules in any way. It also does not address whether an appeal, dispute, or exception to the announced rates exists for any individual — readers with those questions should consult the notice itself or CMS directly.

Source links

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/19/2025-20251/medicare-program-medicare-part-b-monthly-actuarial-rates-premium-rates-and-annual-deductible https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/11/14/2024-26474/medicare-program-medicare-part-b-monthly-actuarial-rates-premium-rates-and-annual-deductible https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/17/2023-22823/medicare-program-medicare-part-b-monthly-actuarial-rates-premium-rates-and-annual-deductible https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/29/2022-21090/medicare-program-medicare-part-b-monthly-actuarial-rates-premium-rates-and-annual-deductible https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/11/17/2021-25050/medicare-program-medicare-part-b-monthly-actuarial-rates-premium-rates-and-annual-deductible