Medicare’s Annual Enrollment Season Enters Final Weeks: Few People Compare Options, and the Means of Comparison are Often FlawedHome for the Holidays | Leaving the Nursing Home During a Medicare-Covered Stay During the Coronavirus PandemicCenter for … [Read more...] about CMA Alert | November 19, 2020
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CMA Alert | November 12, 2020
Medicare Cost-Sharing Announced for 2021Supreme Court Hears Case Challenging Affordable Care ActInfection Control Surveys In Nursing Facilities: As Deaths Soar, CMS Reports Few Deficiencies, Primarily “No Harm”Recent Rules and Guidance Address … [Read more...] about CMA Alert | November 12, 2020
CMA Alert | November 11, 2020
Five Days until the Affordable Care Act is in Front of the Supreme CourtMembers of Congress Write CMS Urging Restoration of Nurse Aide Training Requirements for Nursing FacilitiesNursing Facilities and COVID: Staffing MattersPolicy – Medicare’s … [Read more...] about CMA Alert | November 11, 2020
CMA Alert | October 29, 2020
Dismantling the Affordable Care Act Would Harm Medicare and Medicare Beneficiaries: Spotlight on Medicare’s Financial StabilityProvider Relief Funds: Care for Patients or Boosting Provider Revenues?Utah’s Crisis Standards of Care: Discriminatory … [Read more...] about CMA Alert | October 29, 2020
CMA Alert | October 22, 2020
Medicare Plan Finder Problems Emerge – At Least Three SHIP Programs Cautioning People to Delay Enrollment until Problems ResolvedDismantling the Affordable Care Act Would Harm Medicare and Medicare Beneficiaries: Spotlight on Closing the Part D … [Read more...] about CMA Alert | October 22, 2020
CMA Alert | October 15, 2020
Dismantling the ACA Would Harm Medicare and Medicare Beneficiaries | Highlight on Preventive ServicesCOVID-Only Nursing Facilities: What Happened To A Good Idea?Paying Direct Care Workers a Living WageFree Webinar - Skilled Nursing Facility … [Read more...] about CMA Alert | October 15, 2020
CMA Alert | October 8, 2020
Medicare Open Enrollment Starts October 15Nursing Facilities and Covid-19 – It’s Not InevitableAHRQ Launches National Nursing Home COVID Action Network Training ProgramSpecial Report: CMS Releases Fifth Cumulative List of Focused Infection Control … [Read more...] about CMA Alert | October 8, 2020
CMA Alert | October 1, 2020
Updates - Medicare Open Enrollment Period, Starting October 15Free Webinar - Medicare Enrollment Issues for 2021MA Plans Allowed to Report Less Data about Appeals Outcomes Updates - Medicare Open Enrollment Period, Starting October 15 The … [Read more...] about CMA Alert | October 1, 2020
CMA Alert | September 24, 2020
In Memory of Justice Ginsburg – From our Executive Director, Judy SteinCandidates: Don’t Forget MedicareExtra Time to Pay Medicare Premiums Ends September 30, 2020Second Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Beneficiaries Can “Aggregate” Medicare Claims at … [Read more...] about CMA Alert | September 24, 2020
CMA Alert | September 17, 2020
CMS Long-Term Care Commission Issues ReportCenter for Medicare Advocacy Issue Brief, Examining Health Care Disparities: An Analysis of Home Health Care Received by Connecticut’s Dually Eligible PopulationsCOVID 19 and Racial Disparities: Important … [Read more...] about CMA Alert | September 17, 2020