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Retirement Strategies With Increasing Health Care Costs

Ease the minds of clients and understand solutions to the exposure to high medical costs.

The biggest concern of any retired person is whether health care costs will drain their retirement savings. The foremost worry is of an extended stay in a nursing home. This is heightened fear, for a married couple, that high medical costs may leave a surviving spouse destitute. This topic will detail how persons can be exposed to high health care costs - what is and is not covered under Medicare and other government benefits and insurance plans. The material will also detail how retirement accounts and other assets can be protected from these costs.

89 minutes
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Agenda

Spiraling Health Care Costs for the Elderly

Health Care Costs for the Elderly - What Is Covered and What Is Not?

Medicare

  • Eligibility and Enrollment Periods
  • Premiums and Co-Pays
  • Holes in Medicare
    • Part B
    • Part D
    • Hearing, Vision, and Dental
    • Medigap Policies
    • Very Limited LongTerm Care Coverage
  • Medicare Advantage Plans

Medicaid

  • Filling Some of Medicare's Holes in Coverage
  • High Costs of Privately Paying for Long-Term Care
  • Basic Eligibility Criteria
  • Estate Recovery Upon Death

Long-Term Care Insurance

  • Advantages and Disadvantages

Reverse Mortgages

Creditor Protected Assets

  • ERISA Creditor Protection for 401ks and Other Employer Plans
  • Bankruptcy Creditor Protection for Retirement Accounts
  • State Law Creditor Protection for Retirement Accounts
  • Other Creditor Protected Assets
    • Homestead
    • Life Insurance
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OnDemand Course

Applications have not yet been submitted for Delaware, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wyoming CLE for this course. However, if you are interested in obtaining CLE for any of the listed states or have any additional credit questions please email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-352-9540.

This course was last revised on September 14, 2021.

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  • AR CLE 1.5
     
  • This course has been approved for 1.5 hours of CLE by the Arkansas CLE Board.
     
  • CA MCLE 1.5
     
  • Lorman Business Center, LLC. is a State Bar of California approved MCLE sponsor and this course qualifies for 1.5 CLE hours of participatory credit.
     
  • NY CLE 1.5 including Areas of Professional Practice 1.5
     
  • This course has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the New York Continuing Legal Education Board for up to a maximum of 1.5 credit hours in the area(s) of Areas of Professional Practice for 1.50 hours. Each hour may be counted only as satisfying one category of credit. Duplicate credit for the same hour of instruction is not permitted. This course qualifies for both established and newly admitted attorneys. Lorman Business Center, LLC. has a financial hardship guideline. Please contact customer service at 1.866.352.9539 for instructions on how to apply.
     
  • WA CLE 1.5
     
  • This program has been approved by the Washington State Board of Continuing Legal Education for 1.5 hours of A/V credit under the Law & Legal Procedure category.
     
The CLE Code is ONLY a requirement when applying for CLE Credit in New York. Other states do not need to supply the CLE Code to apply for CLE credit.

To earn each credit Lorman offers through the OnDemand learning platform, you need to watch 100% of the program. Also, for certain credits you will need to fulfill additional requirements which will be displayed on the "credits" tab when viewing the course.

This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.

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Thomas J. Murphy

Thomas J. Murphy

Murphy Law Firm, Inc.

  • Has been an attorney since 1982 and has been practicing law in Phoenix, Arizona since 1989
  • Practice focuses on probate law, which deals with administering the estates of deceased or incapacitated persons; estate planning, which deals with wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and related documents; elder law, which deals with protecting the interests of the elderly when dealing with nursing home and other health care issue as well as end-of-life issues; and tax law and planning for the disabled and those with special needs
  • Written nearly 100 articles that have been published in many national and state professional journals writing on a wide variety of legal and tax matters
  • Has spoken to thousands of attorneys, accountants, and financial advisors and has appeared on several local television and radio stations to discuss tax and legal issues affecting the elderly and their families
  • A sought-after panelist for numerous nationally broadcasted seminars and webcasts for elder law attorneys; and was recently selected to speak at the 2018 Aging in America conference, the largest conference of its kind in the country with over 3,000 attendees
  • Served on numerous state and county bar association committees and was selected to be the State Bar representative to the Arizona Supreme Court’s Committee on Reform of Lower Jurisdiction Courts
  • One of the most experienced trial attorneys in the Southwest, having been the sole or lead counsel in over 100 jury trials; has successfully litigated cases in the United States Tax Court, the Arizona Tax Court, and the Arizona Board of Tax Appeals and has represented clients before all levels of the Internal Revenue Service and Arizona Department of Revenue
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Product ID: 404495
Published 2021
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