- Welcome and Housekeeping (David Lipschutz, Moderator)
- Federal Update (David Lipschutz)
o Federal Budget & Omnibus Bill
- Tipping the Scales Towards Medicare Advantage (David Lipschutz)
- Overview
- Recent Legislative and Regulatory changes favoring MA
- CMS steering during 2017 Annual Coordinated Election Period (ACEP)
- Provisions of the Budget Act of 2018 (Kathy Holt, David Lipschutz)
- The Good
- Elimination of Therapy Caps
- Gleason Act and Speech Generating Devices (SGDs)
- The Good
- The Bad
- Further Means Testing of Part B and D premiums
- Home Health Changes
- Update on ACA Sabotage (Ben Belton)
- Litigation Update (Ali Bers)
- Alexander (formerly Barrows/Bagnall) (Hospital Observation Status)
- Other Updates
- Miscellaneous
- Upcoming webinars – see: https://www.medicareadvocacy.org/webinars/
- Medicare Home Health Update
March 14, 2018 @ 3 p.m.ET
Presenters: Attorneys Judith Stein, Kathleen Holt
- Medicare Home Health Update
- Upcoming webinars – see: https://www.medicareadvocacy.org/webinars/
- 5th Annual National Voices of Medicare Summit and Senator Jay Rockefeller Lecture
March 22, 2018
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM, EDT
Washington, DC
- General Medicare Q&A (Moderator)
- Wrap-up (Moderator)
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