Alliance Issue Brief

National Medicare Advocates Alliance Issue brief #18 1.  PRESENTATIONS ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW PROCESS:  LITTLE SUCCESS, LONG DELAYS Based upon the Center’s extensive experience with the Medicare administrative appeals … [Read more...] about October 2012 – Updates on Medicare Appeals and Complaints

1. MEDICARE AND ACA MESSAGING: FIGHTING FICTION WITH FACT As pundits and politicians continue to discuss the deficit, misinformation and confusion about Medicare abound.  Fiction seems to flourish more than fact. Particularly since the … [Read more...] about August, 2012 – Medicare and Affordable Care Act messaging: Fighting Fiction with Facts

I. LEGISLATIVE UPDATE Failure of the Super-Committee On November 21, 2011, members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction ("Super-Committee") announced that they had failed to put together a legislative package to cut the … [Read more...] about December 12, 2011 – Updates for Medicare in 2012

I.                   Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction ("Supercommittee") The Budget Control Act of 2011 created this committee and tasked … [Read more...] about October 17, 2011 – Medicare and the Debt/Deficit Debate: The Latest on the Supercommittee, the President’s Recommendations and More