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[Health Insurance] 38, LTC Partnership Programs and Consumer Protections
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This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- Partnership for Long-Term Care Programs allow individuals to protect assets from Medicaid spend-down requirements on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
- To be partnership-qualified, LTC policies must be tax-qualified and include specific, age-based inflation protection.
- The NAIC Model Act provides critical consumer protections for LTC policies, including that they must be guaranteed renewable.
- LTC policies cannot require prior hospitalization to trigger benefits and cannot exclude coverage for Alzheimer's disease.
- A 30-day free-look period is a standard consumer protection provision in long-term care insurance policies.
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