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provision in the law requiring an annual review of the deductible. Hie first such review, the law provided, was to be made in 1968.

Hie law states that if this annual review shows that hospital costs have changed significantly, the hospital deductible must be adjusted forr the following year, with any necessary adjustments made in $4 steps -- to avoid small annual changes.

Mrs. Daly said that when the hospital deductible amount changes, the law requires comparable changes in the dollar amounts a Medicare beneficiary pays toward a hospital stay of more than 60 days, or a posthospital extended care stay of more than 20 days. Hiese amounts, also, will go up 10 percent, beginning January 1,

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