Helping Your Patients Access Medicaid
This training is designed for staff at community health centers across New York, but will be useful for staff at any community based organization that helps clients access health care services. Participants will learn about the public health care programs available to clinic patients, and strategies that have proven successful for overcoming common barriers to eligibility - including spend down, spousal refusal and pooled trusts. Read More
Maximizing Health coverage for DAP clients - Before and After Winning the Case
Brief overview will include: recent changes to Medicaid, Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus; Medicaid managed care for SSI recipients; transitioning to Medicare. Read More
Medicare with Medicaid: Maximizing Health Coverage for Dual Eligibles
This workshop will cover the A, B, Cs and Ds of Medicare and several strategies for helping elderly and/or disabled clients use both Medicare and Medicaid together, including Medicare Savings Programs, Medicaid Spend Down and the Medicaid Buy-in-Program for Working People with Disabilities. Read More
Medicare Part D - Part I - (2008) Basics About Part D:
This training covers almost everything social workers and advocates needs to know to assist their clients with the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit ("Part D"). It assumes no existing background in Part D. Read More
Navigating the New Medicare Part D Appeals Process
Nuts and bolts of the Medicare Part D appeals process, including strategies for representing clients with prescription coverage denials, appeals of denials for the low-income subsidy, and issues related to New York's Medicaid wrap-around coverage. Read More
