It’s Important To Carefully Review Medicare Bills, Especially If You Think Something Should Have Been Covered
San Diego’s Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program's lead attorney offers tips and advice on appealing Medicare denials. Meanwhile, outreach programs help seniors as they navigate this Medicare enrollment season.
The San Diego Union-Tribune:
Sometimes Medicare Gets It Wrong And You Have The Right To Appeal
Sometimes, Medicare makes mistakes, and Christopher Crowson has seen far more than his share. As the lead attorney for San Diego’s Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program, Crowson has spent decades helping Medicare beneficiaries fight back when the nation’s largest health insurance program denies claims, misunderstands key facts about the care that patients have received or takes an action that is just plain wrong. (Sisson, 10/23)
Capital Public Radio:
University Of The Pacific Hosts Clinics To Help Patients With Medicare Open Enrollment
The Medicare open enrollment period for runs from Oct. 15, 2018 to Dec. 7, 2018 for people who want to reevaluate their health care and prescription drug coverage. The University of the Pacific Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is hosting 13 public events with the Mobile Medicare Clinics outreach program across northern California to help patients pick the right Medicare Part D drug plan. (10/23)
And in other aging news —
The California Health Report:
Program Aims To Keep More Low-Income Seniors Out Of Nursing Homes
California is expanding a program that allows low-income elderly and disabled people eligible for care in a nursing facility to stay in their own homes instead. Between now and 2021, the Department of Health Care Services plans to expand what’s known as the Home and Community-Based Alternatives waiver program from just under 4,000 slots to almost 9,000. The program, funded through the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, pays for skilled-nursing care, home health aides, personal care services and case management to patients in their homes or in a community setting. (Boyd-Barrett, 10/24)