For seniors, estimating their medical costs in advance is usually a shot in the dark.
Of more than 350 seniors age 65 and older, only 41 percent even try to predict out-of-pocket costs for medical appointments, services and treatments and of those who try, 78 percent get it right at least “sometimes” with more than one third getting it right “most of the time.”
The survey was fielded from April 12-19, 2011 by Extend Health, Inc., which operates the nation’s largest private Medicare exchange.
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