Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services debuted a new website that offers comprehensive information on the health insurance options available to Americans. The site, www.healthcare.gov, includes sections that are tailored to the needs of older adults and people with disabilities. The site also explains how and when health reform provisions will affect consumers.

Although the website was unveiled as a fully functional tool, more features and information will be added in the coming months. Just yesterday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services added data on care quality to Hospital Compare, a tool available through the website. The new data will help consumers evaluate the quality of outpatient and inpatient care at hospitals across the country.

Use the Hospital Compare tool.

Visit www.healthcare.gov.

http://www.medicarerights.org/pdf/Health-Reform-Implementation-Timeline.pdf

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Consumer Hotline: 1-800-333-4114

Counselors
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Eastern, and are happy to answer your questions about insurance
choices, Medicare rights and protections, dealing with payment denials
or appeals, complaints about care or treatment, and Medicare bills.

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For any other general inquiries to Medicare Rights Center staff, please feel free to email us.

Offices

If you need to contact our administrative staff, please write to or call us:

Medicare Rights Center

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North Wing, 3rd Floor

New York, NY 10018

Phone: 212.869.3850

Fax: 212.869.3532

Medicare Rights Center

110 Maryland Avenue, NE

Washington, DC 20002

Phone: 202.544.5561

Fax: 202.544.5549

“Medicare for Caregivers”
Description:
Do you help and support someone who has Medicare? If so, it is important to understand your loved one’s health care needs and preferences and how you can help your loved one get the care she needs. To educate professionals, caregivers and people with Medicare about Medicare for Caregivers, the Medicare Rights Center’s free educational web seminar explains:
What you need to know as a caregiver.
How to get care for your loved one.
Your rights and loved one’s rights.
How to make sure you are taking care of yourself as well as your loved one.
The Medicare Rights Center is pleased to announce that we will be hosting monthly free web seminars on important Medicare topics. The monthly seminars will be held on the second Thursday of each month.
To register for these seminars and view recordings of past presentations, please visit http://www.medicarerights.org/webinars.html
For those of you with questions about Medicare, we would like to share all of our online resources with you:
To learn more about the ins and outs of Medicare, please visit

www.medicarerights.org/help.html.
If you need help with an individual Medicare problem, please call our consumer hotline at 800-333-4114.
All the best,
The Web Seminar Team

Guide to Open Enrollment Period- Medicare Advantage

Medicare & You 2008

There is considerable amount of fraud at the expense of uninformed senior by vendors and health plans’ agents - It is necessary to protect the Medicare card number, since unauthorized use of the Medicare card number is the key that facilitates such fraud. This is a problem in itself, since social security numbers are relatively easy to obtain with some research and inquiry.

Looking for Medicare Fraud

Manual for Part D appeals process

An advocate’s manual to navigating the Medicare private drug plan appeals process

The coordination of two or more sources of medical coverage when Medicare is also available.

whopaysfirst.pdf

Choosing A Medigap Policy