The Alliance provides Medicare advocates with a collaborative network to share resources, best practices, and developments of import to Medicare beneficiaries throughout the country. The Alliance is supported by the John A. Hartford Foundation. Information is shared via quarterly private meetings via Zoom – National Medicare Advocates Alliance Updates.
Project Summary and Goals
With the support of the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Center for Medicare Advocacy continues to develop and lead a nationwide alliance of Medicare advocates, public interest programs, and organizations. Through a series of online presentations and related collaborative support, we hope to enhance advocates’ knowledge of Medicare coverage and increase successful Medicare appeals and efforts at systemic change. Alliance Updates will be held quarterly, and more frequently if needed.
The Updates provide public interest advocates with the opportunity to pose questions, discuss complex and ongoing advocacy concerns, and use CMA’s expertise and the collective wisdom of Alliance participants to problem-solve. Senior Center for Medicare Advocacy attorneys will host the calls, and on each call will obtain further suggestions from participants about particular Medicare coverage and appeal topics of concern. Based on that input, CMA will prepare a short practice-oriented memorandum and guided discussion for the following month’s call. Such topics might include how to deal with Medicare’s erroneous improvement, chronic and stable standards; how to contest a Part B income-based premium; and tips for appealing denials of Medicare home health coverage.
Project Components:
- Quarterly online Updates for advocates – more frequently if needed;
- Expert analysis and memoranda about Medicare coverage and appeals;
- Practice Tip Memoranda on specific topics for use in case evaluation and development;
- Simplified coverage screens for beneficiaries.
Project Coordination
Center for Medicare Advocacy Managing Policy Attorney Kata Kertesz leads the Medicare Advocates Alliance Updates. For further information about this project or to sign up for the quarterly updates via Zoom, please contact us at communications@medicareadvocacy.org.