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Monthly Archives: May 2022

Medicare Rights Annual Trends Report Outlines Key Challenges Facing People with Medicare

This is part 1 of the helpline trends report series. Read part 2, part 3, and part 4. This week, the Medicare Rights Center released our annual helpline trends report, Medicare Trends and Recommendations: An Analysis of 2020-2021 Call Data from the Medicare Rights Center’s National Helpline. Drawn from our direct […]

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Issue Brief Explores Ways to Reduce Medicaid Churn

A new issue brief from the Integrated Care Resource Center (ICRC) examines strategies to reduce churn, the unnecessary loss of Medicaid coverage, for the 12 million people who are dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare. Churn causes significant health and financial burdens for beneficiaries, providers, insurance plans, and states. Despite […]

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Medicare Rights Center and Partners Ask CMS to Ease Transition Issues Ahead of End of Public Health Emergency

During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) created several exceptions to how Medicaid, Marketplace plan subsidies, and Medicare Savings Programs handled annual recertifications confirming people’s continued eligibility for those programs. While these changes have been important to protecting continuity of care and […]

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