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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

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

Medicare Advantage

Case Study: Medicare Advantage and Repeated Coverage Denials Amid the COVID Crisis
Medicare Advantage Marketing Matters: Case Study
Family History of Colon Cancer Should Increase the Frequency of Colonoscopies, but Ultimately the MA Plan, Not the Treating Doctor, May Determine When Procedures Will Occur
MA Plan Prior Authorization Requirements Cause Problems in a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Leading to Patient Re-Hospitalizations

Long Term Care


The Affordable Care Act

Lifetime Limit Reached – ACA Saved Him. #ProtectOurCare
Grateful for the Affordable Care Act: A Story from Paul 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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