Medicaid & Medicare: Maximizing Coverage for Disabled Clients
August 23, 2010
Author: Cathy Roberts| Geoffrey Hale
This outline is intended to assist Disability Advocacy Program (DAP) advocates maximize health insurance coverage for clients they are representing on Social Security/SSI disability determinations. We begin with a discussion of coverage options available while your client’s DAP case is pending and then outline the effect winning the DAP case can have on your client’s access to health care coverage. How your client is affected will vary depending on the source and amount of disability income he or she receives after the successful appeal.
The article is part of New York Health Access website. NY Health Access is a website created and maintained by Empire Justice, Self-Help, Inc., and the Legal Aid Society of New York City. The site has proved extremely helpful to advocates across the state and is enjoying over 10,000 visits a day since its launch at the end of 2009.
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