Stories: Voices of Medicare & Health Care

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Home Health

Longtime Center Client Rosalie Berkowitz on the importance of being able to stay in her home (A StoryCorps portrait)

Edith Masterman: Fighting to Keep Medicare Services, with Executive Director Judith Stein

Case Study: Home Health Coverage and Medicare Advantage Plan Responsibilities

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Observation Status

Center for Medicare Advocacy client Lee Barrows testifies on “Observation Status”

NPR Observation Status Story: How Medicare’s Conflicting Hospitalization Rules Cost Me Thousands Of Dollars

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Medicare Advantage

Case Study: Medicare Advantage and Repeated Coverage Denials Amid the COVID Crisis

Medicare Advantage Marketing Matters: Case Study

Medicare Advantage Plans Impede Access to Care: Case Study #2

Medicare Advantage Plans Impede Access to Care: Case Study #1

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Long Term Care

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The Affordable Care Act

Lifetime Limit Reached – ACA Saved Him. #ProtectOurCare

Grateful for the Affordable Care Act: A Story from Speaker Ryan’s District

Remarks on 30 Years of Medicare Advocacy

A moving video from Steve Gleason, delivered through the use of his speech-generating device with eye-gaze technology, thanking the Center for its part in getting Medicare to change its policy to cover this technology.

Other Stories

• Husband Reimbursed for Dying Wife’s Medication After Trying to Appeal Hospice Denial for Nearly Eight Years

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