Medicare Basics

What’s Your Experience with the Medicare Call Center? At a November 15th hearing, Oregon Senator Gordon Smith reported that his staffers have repeatedly “received incorrect and misleading answers to several…

Efforts are in play to stop a 10 percent Medicare physician fee cut scheduled for Jan. 1, 2008. According to Mary Agnes Carey, Associate Editor of CQ Health Beat, the…

Strugglin’ to grasp, understand and easily articulate Medicare’s growing complexity, particularly with Part D? Tryin’ to remember and differentiate the multitudes of acronyms and enrollment periods? Well struggle no more!…

California Health Advocates closely watches state legislative activity and actively supports those bills benefiting California’s Medicare and Medi-Cal populations. This article briefly reviews many pieces of legislation that California Health…

If Congress does not take action before they adjourn in October, Medicare will cut physician payments by close to five percent on January 1, 2007, with cuts totaling as much…

Last summer Senators Christopher Dodd, John Kerry, Edward Kennedy and Jeff Bingaman introduced the Justice for Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 2005 (S. 1335), a bill to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries…

With the rapid implementation of Medicare Part D, the complexity of the benefit, and the overwhelming amount of choices between plans, California Health Advocates is concerned that Medicare beneficiaries may…

The California HealthCare Foundation is an independent philanthropy committed to both helping consumers make informed health care decisions and improving the way healthcare is delivered and financed in California. Not…