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| New Web service helps Medicare Beneficiaries with Limited means get more Health Care Assistance, includes assistance with enrolling in extra help for the Medicare Drug Benefit and State Medicaid Benefits and other Assistance Programs |
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The Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Quality Improvement Roadmap.
This document was created by the CMS Quality Council, in an effort to delineate and advance a vision for improving of medical care. It provides a summary of CMS's many quality-related initiatives. The goal of the quality roadmap is to ensure the right care for every person every time and to do this by making care safe, effective, efficient, patient-centered, timely and equitable. A copy of the Quality Improvement Roadmap is available on the CMS website at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/quality/quality%20roadmap.pdf. |
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Congress is seriously considering increasing cost-sharing for Medicaid beneficiaries that could result in increased premiums, deductibles and co-pays for all health care services (out-patient visits, prescription drugs, physical, speech and occupational therapies, mobility devices and other durable medical equipment), including home and community based waiver services.
Check out this new Action Alert at http://capwiz.com/thearc/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=7839996 that provides more details about the problem and a request for personal stories. The Disability Policy Collaboration is working to keep Medicaid affordable for people with disabilities and we need stories from your constituents and their families about out-of-pockets expenses on health care services and supports.
Please distribute this Action Alert widely - to all local chapters, your colleagues in the disability community, allies, self-advocates, list-serves, constituents, parents and other families members. Time is of the essence.
Thanks for your time and effort. Call me if you have questions/concerns.
Richard B. Price Director of Communications and Grassroots Advocacy The Arc and UCP Disability Policy Collaboration 1660 L Street, NW, Suite 701 Washington, DC 20036 Office: (202) 783-2229 x. 15 Fax: (202) 783-8250
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