HOT TOPICS

• Center for Medicare Advocacy Launches New Project - Removing a Major Barrier to Necessary Care: The Medicare "Improvement Standard" Advocacy & Education Initiative

Health Reform

• Medicare and Related Provisions in Health Care Reform Legislation

• Why Health Care Reform is GOOD for Medicare Beneficiaries

• Private Profits, Cost Shifting, and the Need for a Public Plan Option

• Private Medicare and Medicare Part D: a Cautionary Tale for Health Care Reform

• Countering Health Reform Misinformation

• Don't Believe the Myths about Health Reform 

• Proposed Medicare Advisory Commission Could Help AND Hurt

• The President on Health Care Reform: "It's Not About Me"

• Who Do We Want in Control of Health Care?

• The Center for Medicare Advocacy Supports a Public Plan Option for Real Health Care Reform... and Here is What We Need in a Public Health Plan

• Health Care Reformers Should Learn from Medicare

• Elderly Used as Front in Letter-Writing Campaign by Private Medicare Plans

• Medicare Privatization and Reform: News and Commentary

Medicare and Related Topics

• CMS Releases 2010 Medicare Cost-Sharing Amounts

• When Medicare Advantage plans Do Not Renew Their Contracts

• Time to Review Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage

• The Medicare "Improvement Standard" is a Barrier to Necessary Care

• 2010 Program Improvements for Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries

• Social Security: No Cost of Living Adjustment; Medicare: Higher Premiums for Some, But Not All

• When is a Hospital Stay not a Hospital Stay?  When the Patient is on "Observation Status"

• Hospice News: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

• CMS Reins in Overpayments to Skilled Nursing Facilities

• Limits on Medicare's Recovery of Health Care Payments when the Beneficiary has Liability or Workers' Compensation Insurance

• Need a quick Fact about Medicare?  Check out our Statistics page

• Judith Stein and Senator Christopher J. Dodd OpEd: "The Wrong Way To Fix Medicare"