Medicare planning is a crucial subset of retirement planning that ensures your clients will be able to maximize healthcare benefits and minimize healthcare-related costs in retirement. Contrary to popular belief, Medicare planning should begin decades before a person becomes eligible for Medicare. You’ll learn what’s involved in Medicare planning and how to incorporate it into your practice.
Important Concepts
- Introduction to Medicare Planning (15 minutes)
- Dispelling four critical Medicare myths: (55 minutes)
- Medicare is free and the actual costs, planning for costs
- Everyone pays the same for Medicare and IRMAA
- My parent's Medicare decisions are their business.
- Medicare won't be there anymore and the Medicare Trust Fund
- Medicare preparation: (25 minutes)
- Powers of attorney and Social Security Representative Payee
- my Social Security account
- Medicare eligibility
- Important Medicare concepts (25 minutes)
- Question and Answer Session (30 minutes)
