1. Personal Finance Garman/Forgue Tenth Edition
Chapter 11: Managing Health Expenses
PPT slide program prepared by Amy Forgue and Ray Forgue.

2. Introduction Health care issues that impact personal finances
Direct Medical Care Costs
Rehabilitative and Custodial Care Costs
Lost Income
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3. Your Next Five Years In the next five years:
1. Sign up for an employer-sponsored premium conversion plan and a flexible spending arrangement for health care, whenever they are available, to save money on taxes.
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4. Your Next Five Years
2. Consider using a high-deductible health care plan and health savings account if you are unable to afford the high costs of an HMO or traditional health insurance plan.
3. Always maintain coverage for direct health care expenses when changing employers using the COBRA law or a short-term health plan for protection.
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5. Your Next Five Years
4. Take advantage of employer-sponsored long-term disability income insurance if available or consider purchasing protection individually.
5. Regularly reevaluate your need for long-term care insurance against your resources for providing such care on your own.
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6. Learning Objective #1
Identify ways that people can manage the financial burdens resulting from illness or injury.
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7. Addressing the Financial Burdens of Illness or Injury
Group Health Plans are sold or provided collectively to an entire group of people rather than to individuals.
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8. Addressing the Financial Burdens of Illness or Injury
Covering Your Direct Medical Care Costs
Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs)
Traditional Health Insurance
High-deductible Plans
Medicaid, Medicare Parts A and B
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9. Addressing the Financial Burdens of Illness or Injury
Covering Your Rehabilitative and Custodial Care Costs
Long-term care insurance
Covering Your Lost Income
Disability Income Insurance
Social Security disability income insurance
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10. Concept Check 11.1
List three ways that group health plans are better than individually purchased plans.
Identify the five mechanisms available to help people pay for direct health care costs.
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11. Concept Check 11.1
Explain why someone might want to purchase long-term care insurance.
Explain how someone might replace the income lost due to illness or injury.
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12. Learning Objective #2
Distinguish among the types of protection for direct health expenses.
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13. Sources of Protection from Direct Medical Care Costs
Health Care Plans
Changes to your group plan can be made during the open-enrollment period.
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14. Sources of Protection from Direct Medical Care Costs
Health Maintenance Organizations
Individual Practice Organization
HMOs, Managed Care Plans
Primary-Care Physician
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15. Traditional Health Insurance
Comprehensive Health Insurance
Indemnity Plans
Preferred Provider Organizations
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16. Consumer-Driven Health Care
High-Deductible Health Care Plan
Health Savings Account (or HSA)
Health Reimbursement Account (or HRA)
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17. Concept Check 11.2
Distinguish between health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and traditional health insurance.
Identify two benefits of selecting a preferred provider organization (PPO) when seeking health care.
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18. Concept Check 11.2
Explain the linkage between high-deductible health care plans and health savings accounts (HSAs) and health reimbursement accounts (HRAs).
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19. Learning Objective #3
Describe the general benefits and limitations of health care plans.
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20. Making Sense of Your Health Plan Benefits
Certificate of Insurance: Paper or booklet that outlines group health insurance benefits.
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21. Making Sense of Your Health Plan Benefits
What Types of Care Are Covered?
Dental expense insurance
Vision care insurance
Preexisting conditions
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22. Making Sense of Your Health Plan Benefits
Who Is Covered
When does coverage begin and end?
Optionally renewable policies
Guaranteed renewable policies
Noncancelable policies
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23. Making Sense of Your Health Plan Benefits
How Much Must Your Pay Out of Your Own Pocket?
Deductibles
Copayments
Coinsurance
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24. Lifetime or aggregate limit
Policy Limits
Item limits
Episode limits
Annual limits
Lifetime or aggregate limit
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25. Coordination of Benefits
Coordination of benefits clause
Maintain your medical care plan between jobs.
COBRA rights
Portability option
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26. Concept Check 11.3
What are preexisting conditions and how do they affect coverage under health plans?
Distinguish among a deductible, a copayment, and coinsurance.
Explain COBRA rights and portability rights that apply when you leave a job that has a group health care plan.
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27. Concept Check 11.3
Distinguish among item limits, episode limits, time period limits, and aggregate limits as used in health care plans.
Distinguish among optionally renewable, guaranteed renewable, and noncancelable health care plans.
List three ways you can save on taxes when paying for health care or insurance.
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28. Learning Objective #4
Develop a plan for protecting your income when you cannot work due to disability.
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29. Protecting Your Income During Disability
Disability income insurance
Social Security disability insurance
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30. Protecting Your Income During Disability
Important disability income insurance policy provisions:
Waiting period (or elimination period)
Benefit period
A longer waiting period will help you afford a longer benefit period.
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31. Protecting Your Income During Disability
Important disability income insurance policy provisions:
Degree of disability
Own-occupation or any-occupation
Split-definition policies
Residual clause
Social Security rider
Cost-of-living adjustments
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32. Concept Check 11.4
Explain how you determine your level of need for disability income insurance.
Identify the major policy provisions to consider when purchasing disability income insurance.
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33. Concept Check 11.4
Distinguish between any-occupation and own-occupation disability income insurance plans.
Describe how you might adjust the waiting period on a disability income insurance policy in order to affordably obtain a longer benefit period.
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34. Learning Objective #5
Explain how to protect yourself from the expenses for long-term care.
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35. Planning for Long-Term Care
The degree of impairment required for benefits to begin
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
The level of care covered
Skilled nursing care
Intermediate care
Custodial care
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36. Planning for Long-Term Care
The person’s age
The benefit amount
The benefit period
The waiting period
Inflation protection
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37. Concept Check 11.5
Describe the protections provided by long-term care insurance.
Distinguish between the benefit period and the waiting period for a long-term care policy.
List three aspects of long-term care insurance that affect the cost of a policy.
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38. The Top 3 Financial Missteps In Managing Health Expenses
People slip up in managing health expenses when they do the following:
1. Go unprotected for health care when changing jobs.
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39. The Top 3 Financial Missteps In Managing Health Expenses
2. Duplicate employer-provided health care protection with your employed spouse.
3. Ignore the need for disability income insurance.
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40. Do It NOW!
Maintaining coverage in a health care plan is essential to protect your future financial success. Start today by:
1. Learning exactly what group health care coverage you actually do have through your job, your school, and/or your parents.
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41. Do It NOW!
2. Investigating the possibility of saving on income taxes via a premium conversion plan, flexible spending arrangement, or health savings account (HSA).
3. Identifying one behavior that you engage in that could lead to health problems later in life and taking steps to reduce their impact.
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