Thank you, Sir. Yeah, you can likely reduce the yearly estimate a bit (at least for premiums) and then make some reasonable assumptions on out-of-pocket costs for Medicare. I will be talking more about that piece in a coming post. Laws do change and the rate changes are ‘generally’ tied to inflation, but it is great to know them now and flag any changes that come up.
Max
]]>Hi Kim!
No problem. Technically, Medicare never kicks in for nursing home care (unless it is a short skilled nursing stay). Medicare leaves that to the state Medicaid programs, and you are absolutely right they make you spend down assets before Medicaid will start paying. A lot of states make you go all the way down to $2,500 before Medicaid kicks in. One of the nursing homes I work with runs about $350 per day, so that spend down cand happen pretty quickly when you are blowing through $10,000 per month.
Take care,
Max
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