[iowamark]

Seventy-five thousand dollars is the average yearly cost of living in a nursing home

$75000 per year/$205 per day is the average cost of a nursing home?

[neb52]

We use to have a customer that is a chain of nursing homes. They are mostly in rural towns. They charge $3,000 a month to non Medicaid and I think Medicaid paid out $2,000. The non Medicaid were paying more to cover the difference. I think the real cost was $2,500 a month. The nursing staff are specialist so they get paid more than most other RNs. We lost them as a customer because they had racked up a debt of $60,000 and starting complaining about our service(go figure) and changed IT services. They always have problems paying on time and that comes from other vendors not just us. The new IT guy called not to shortly asking us what he got himself into. Haha!

[neb52]

Its a New York paper, so up ther it may cost that much.

[mr_hammer]

Yes sir, my Great Grandma is 92 and lives in a home that charges approx. $6000.00 a month. Phone usage is extra, no kidding!

[DogBarkTree]

My MIL is in a nursing home that cost 9,000 per month total. Its not even that nice of a nursing home either.

[CDHart]

Yes. I am financial mgr. at a skilled nursing facility, i.e. nursing home. We are in a very rural area, and our private pay rates range from 107.63 per day to 128.00 per day. That is low compared to the national average.

Medicaid pays us $102.17 a day less their fees, while our cost per day is about $119.00. The only things that save us are the Medicare A residents, who average about $225.00 per day, and the property taxes we get from the nursing home district. Without that, we'd have to close our doors.

Carolyn

[freeangel]

My dad just came home. $8,000/mo. Which ,I guess, is why my mom decided to bring him home.