The National Medicare Advocates Alliance is an initiative to assist public interest advocates throughout the country with Medicare cases and issues.
Issue Briefs And/Or Presentation Materials
- Issue Brief 79 – https://medicareadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Issue-Brief-79-Feb.-2023.pdf
- Issue Brief 78 – https://medicareadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Alliance-Issue-Brief-78-12-2022.pdf
- Issue Brief 81 | August 2023 – Medicare Oral Health Updates & Other Issues
- Issue Brief 80 | May 2023 – Final Part C & D Rule, and Other Issues
- Issue Brief 77, October 2022 | Home Health Updates & Other Issues
- Issue Brief #76 – August 2022 – Medicare Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act & Other Issues
- Issue Brief #75- June 2022 – Medicare & Telehealth Report and Other Issues
- Issue Brief – March 2022 – Litigation Update Including Observation Status, Off label Drugs & Other Issues
- Issue Brief – January 2022 – Home Health Survey Report and Other Issues
- Issue Brief – November 2021 – Medicare & Build Back Better, and Other Issues
- Issue Brief – September 2021 – Exp[anfing Medicare to Cover Dental, Hearing & Vision, and Other Issues
- Issue Brief – July 2021 – Medicare Coverage of Substance Use Disorder Care, and Other Issues
- Issue Brief – May 2021 – Health Care Reform, Medicare Fiscal Solvency & Other Issues
- Issue Brief – March 2021 – Nursing Homes & COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Other Issues
- Issue Brief – January 2021 – Medicare Provisions In the COVID Relief & Omnibus Package, and Other Issues
- Issue Brief – November 2020 – Health Care and the Election, the ACA Case & Other Issues
- Issue Brief – September 2020 – Medical Rationing & Other Issues
- Issue Brief – July 2020 – Medicare and COVID-19 Updates & Other Issues
- Issue Brief – May 2020 – Medicare and COVID-19 & Other Issues
- Issue Brief – March 2020 – Updates to Medicare Payment v. Coverage – Barriers to Medicare-Covered Care & Other Issues
- Issue Brief – January 2020 – Medicare Payment and Coverage – Barriers to Medicare-Covered Care & Other Issues
- Issue Brief – November 2019 – Medicare Enrollment Period Updates & Other Issues
- Issue Brief – September 2019 – Upcoming Annual Coordinated Election Period (ACEP) & Other Issues
- Issue Brief – July 2019 – Legislative Updates, Rollback of Nursing Home Oversight & other Issues
- Issue Brief – May 2019 – Medicare Oral Health Coverage & Other Issues
- Issue Brief – March 2019 – Medicare Education & Outreach, and Other Issues
- Issue Brief – January 2019 – Medicare Advocacy: Highlights from 2018 and Looking Forward in 2019
- Issue Brief – November 2018 – Special Presentation – Better Advance Care Legal Counseling, and Other Items
- Issue Brief – September 2018 – CMA Special Report on Part D Changes, and Other Issues
- July 2018 – Medicare Hot Topics
- May 2018 – Recent Policy Changes Relating to Medicare Advantage & Other Issues
- March 2018 – Tipping the Scales Toward Medicare Advantage & Other Issues
- January 2018 – Medicare Appeals & Other Issues
- November 2017 – Medicare Enrollment & Other Issues
- September 2017 – Jimmo Implementation Update & Other Issues
- July 2017 – Update on Health Reform & Other Issues
- May 2017 – House Passes AHCA, Updates on Home Health, SGD’s & Other Issues
- March 2017 – Updates on Litigation, Health Reform, Observation Status & Other Issues
- January 2017 – The Fight to Protect the ACA, Medicare and Medicaid & Other Issues
- November 2016 – The Election’s Impact on Medicare, New Nursing Home Requirements of Participation and Other Issues
- September 2016 – Progress In Impact Litigation & Other Issues
- July 2016 – Proposed Medicare Appeals Rules & Other Issues
- May 2016 – Medicare’s Coverage of Oral Health & Other Issues
- March 2016 – Back to Court in Jimmo, Litigation Update & Other Issues
- January 2016 – Senate Finance Request for Comments on Chronic Care & Other Issues
- November 2015 – Budget Act of 2015 Mitigates Increased Part B Premiums And Deductibles; Other Issues
- September 2015 – Proposed Rules for Nursing Facilities are Inadequate & Other Issues
- June 2015 – Reforming Medicare’s Appeals System & Other Issues
- April 2015 – The Potential Impact of the “Doc Fix” & Other Issues
- February 2015 – Live to Fight Another Day: Bagnall, Lessler & Other Issues
- December 2014 – The Year Ahead & Other Issues
- October 2014 – The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 (IMPACT Act) & Other Isues
- August 2014 – Restructuring of Medicare’s Quality Improvement Organizations (QIO) & Other Issues
- June 2014 – Losing Your Voice: Medicare Coverage of Speech Generating Devices During Part A Stays & Other Issues
- April, 2014 – Ongoing Medicare Appeal Concerns & Other Issues
- February 2014 – Improvement Standard Update: Re-Review of Previously Denied Claims Pursuant to Jimmo and Other Issues
- December 2013 – Improvement Standard Update: CMS Issues Manual Provisions Pursuant to Jimmo, and Other Issues
- October, 2013 – Medicare Annual Election period, and the ACA Marketplaces and Other Issues
- August, 2013 – Update on Hospital Observation Status and Other Issues
- June, 2013 – New Hospital Discharge Planning Guidance & Other Updates
- April 2013 – Ongoing Due Process Concerns In Medicare Appeals
- February, 2013 – The Road Forward on Jimmo: the Improvement Standard Lawsuit
- December 2012 – Update on Jimmo: the Improvement Standard Case
- October 2012 – Updates on Medicare Appeals and Complaints
- August, 2012 – Medicare and Affordable Care Act messaging: Fighting Fiction with Facts
- June 11, 2012 – Hospitalization and Rehospitalization of Nursing Home Residents
- February 13, 2012 – Extender Bill, Therapy Caps and Health Reform Challenges
- December 12, 2011 – Updates for Medicare in 2012
- October 17, 2011 – Medicare and the Debt/Deficit Debate: The Latest on the Supercommittee, the President’s Recommendations and More
- June 13, 2011 – Powerpoint – Accountable Care Organizations and .pdf – Recommendations for Beneficiary Protections
For further information about this project and to sign up for the monthly calls, updates, and materials, please contact David Lipschutz in the Center’s Washington, DC office at dlipschutz@medicareadvocacy.org – (202) 293-5760 or Judith Stein in the Center’s Connecticut office at jstein@medicareadvocacy.org – (860) 456-7790.