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Warning to Health Care Service Providers: No Balance Billing

Despite its illegitimacy, balancing billing continues to be widespread. It occurs when a Medicare provider bills a Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB), usually a patient who qualifies for both Medicare and Medicaid, for the difference between the Medicare reimbursement rate and the cost of the service.

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SNIS: States Should Update Policies to Improve Stroke Survival

The vast majority of strokes -- 87 percent -- are ischemic strokes caused by a blocked artery in the brain. Rapid access to stroke surgery (endovascular treatment) for patients having an ischemic stroke caused by an emergent large vessel occlusion can reduce stroke mortality and serious disability by half. Currently, outdated state policies and regulations prevent more than 90 percent of stroke patients with large vessel occlusion from getting the most effective treatment.

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ASA Keynote: ‘Unleashing the $8 Trillion Longevity Bonus’

A new presentation, titled “Unleashing the $8 Trillion Longevity Bonus,” jointly offered by Age Wave CEO Ken Dychtwald, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Director of Gerontology Cynthia Hutchins, and American Society on Aging (ASA) Board Member Olympia Terrell during the March 21 general session of the 2016 ASA Annual Conference, explores retirees’ giving preferences and habits, how giving can give back, and the three forces that will drive the coming $8 trillion giving surge.

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Bill Could Spawn More Nursing Facilities – But at What Cost?

"It is clear that most of the funds would go to those for-profit corporations that wish to build or expand their current facilities. Clearly the Legislature is operating under the misinformation fed to it by the nursing home industry: that the number of nursing home beds will not keep up with the demand,” says the watchdog group California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.

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LSC Begins Pilot Program to Demonstrate Online Legal Aid Portals

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the country’s largest funder of civil legal aid programs for low-income people, is developing online, statewide “legal portals” to direct individuals with civil legal needs to the most appropriate forms of assistance. The Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the country’s largest funder of civil legal aid programs for low-income people, is developing online, statewide “legal portals” to direct individuals with civil legal needs to the most appropriate forms of assistance. LSC is partnering with Microsoft Corporation and Pro Bono Net to develop portals for up to two statewide pilots intended to demonstrate how this approach can be replicated as widely as possible in an economic fashion.

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Six Questions for 2016 Presidential, Congressional Candidates

If you’re an advocate for older Americans and you’re planning to vote in this year’s presidential election, you’re probably interested in where the candidates stand on the issue of Medicare. The New York-based Medicare Rights Center wants to help you determine exactly that.

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Advocacy Group Improves Online Medicare Info Resource

The New York-based Medicare Rights Center has launched a new and improved Medicare Interactive, a free online resource packed with hundreds of answers to Medicare questions. Last year, more than 2 million questions were answered on Medicare Interactive for people looking for information from the largest and most reliable independent Medicare resource.

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Over Two Dozen Advocacy Groups Push Dual Eligible Program

Twenty-seven state and national organizations have signed on to a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services urging the agency to work with states toward strengthening a coordination demonstration program for Medicare-Medicaid (dual eligible) individuals.

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Advocates, Health Insurers Press CMS on Medicare Eligibility

More than 40 leading consumer advocacy organizations and health insurers sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), urging the agency to develop a system to notify people with coverage through Marketplace plans about the ramifications of nearing Medicare eligibility.

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Nonprofits Push Bill to Help People Afford Health Insurance

Two key nonprofit groups are spearheading a movement aimed at pressing federal lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow independent charities to continue helping people afford their health insurance by paying their premiums. Representatives of Patient Services Inc. (PSI) and the American Kidney Fund (AKF), two independent, national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that help people with chronic illnesses and conditions access their treatments and therapies, traveled to Capitol Hill recently for the purpose of raising awareness and support for HR 3742, the proposed Access to Marketplace Insurance Act.

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