Changing NM to CA.....how much more will it cost ?

[travelinbob]

I've been thinking about changing our address to CA ? Currently we pay around $250 to register our trailer, truck and Jeep. Our health ins is with BC/BS and does not cost us much as its a Medicare Advantage HMO.

Does anyone have an idea of how much more it would cost for us to do want I'm considering ?

[Newt]

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/portal/feecalculatorweb/index

[CrazyCooter]

It's going to be at least double that for you truck alone. Once you get over 8,000lb unladen, you are considered a tractor and pay according to your cross combined weight. Here is the table:https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/4ee70a0f-2e2c-4382-8d83-37e7deea09ae/reg4008.pdf?MOD=AJPERES

[travelinbob]

When I checked it out the registration for the truck alone was 3x what it is in NM.

I guess we will just make trips there for our Doctor visits twice a year. Did not really

want to do that but a few days spring and fall will be OK.

[Barbaraok]

Get new physicians in NM.

 

Barb

[Kirk W]

I'd take Barb's suggestion. What if you should need to see your doctor on short notice? I'm sure that there are doctors in NM too and they may even be better ones.

[Newt]

Sometimes, it's a problem finding a Dr who excepts new patients with Medicare.

 

Newt

[bigjim]

Sometimes, it's a problem finding a Dr who excepts new patients with Medicare.

 

Newt

Very true. Even a Dr. you have seen before but haven't seen on regular basis can then classify you as a new patient and that they are not taking any new Medicare patients. This happened to me with 2 different Dr's. in New Mexico. They were both Dermatologist and I wasn't in their area or needing to see them every year at that time.

[travelinbob]

As I originally posted we already have NM doctors. I was considering making CA our home address. We can use Urgent Care or Emergency Rooms but with a Medicare Advantage HMO we are locked into our regular NM doctors. This is for my wife, I use the VA and am considered a Traveling Vet and can use any VA. I also have the HMO but never use it.

It looks like changing our "home" to CA is out of the question. I didn't completely check it out but estimate it would cost us way over $1000 a year to change to CA.

[bigjim]

Are you seen at the Albq. VA? If so who is your primary if you don't mind me asking?

[travelinbob]

Jim, yes Albuquerque and Linszky is primary. I also have another dr in a clinic in Palm Desert, Ca where we spend the winters.

Although all the primary does is check blood work 2X a year, updates your scripts and make referrals to specialists.