• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
California Health Advocates

California Health Advocates

  • Contact
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Contact
    • Our Team
    • Mission
    • Education Services
    • About HICAP
    • Press
    • Testimonials
  • MEDICARE COUNSELING
  • Fact Sheets
  • Topics
    • The Basics
    • Prescription Drugs
    • Low-Income Help
    • Medigap
    • Medicare Advantage
    • Other Health Insurance
    • Appeals
    • Billing & Claims
    • Disabilities
    • Long-Term Care
    • Tribal Nations & Medicare
    • Health Care Reform
    • Advocacy & Policy
    • Glossary
  • Fraud & Abuse
  • Blog
  • Donate

health care reform

California Health Advocates > health care reform

Health Care Reform: Tangible Benefits & Uncertain Future…

Posted by Karen Fletcher on June 21, 2012

Over fourteen million beneficiaries have received at least one preventive service without cost-sharing since the beginning of 2012, according to a recent announcement from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).  In California, that number is 1,180,220 beneficiaries. Also, in the first 4 months of 2012 alone, more than 416,000 people saved an average of $724 on … [Read more...] about Health Care Reform: Tangible Benefits & Uncertain Future…

Filed Under: Health Care Reform Tagged With: health care reform, preventive benefits, supreme court, uninsured

CNBC Presents “Health Care Hustle” Tonight 4/9 at 9p.m.

Posted by Karen Fletcher on April 9, 2012

If you're available at 9p.m. tonight, CNBC is airing their 1-hour documentary on health care fraud.  Senior correspondent Scott Cohn and others on CNBC's investigation crew joined a fraud strike team over a period of 6 months to get a firsthand experience of the fraud problem, and the new multi-agency, collaborative efforts and tactics being used the past 2 years since health … [Read more...] about CNBC Presents “Health Care Hustle” Tonight 4/9 at 9p.m.

Filed Under: Fraud & Abuse Tagged With: documentary, health care reform, Medicare, medicare fraud, taxpayer dollars

Supreme Court to Review Constitutionality of New Health Care Law & Key Provisions

Posted by Karen Fletcher on November 16, 2011

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will review the legal challenges against the federal health reform law, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), in early spring 2012. While several different lawsuits challenging the law were presented to the justices, the court will only review the multistate lawsuit filed by 26 states and the National Federation of Independent … [Read more...] about Supreme Court to Review Constitutionality of New Health Care Law & Key Provisions

Filed Under: Health Care Reform Tagged With: beneficiaries, health care reform, Medicare, Medicare Advantage

Learn How Health Care Reform May Affect You in 2011

Posted by Karen Fletcher on January 11, 2011

Kaiser Family Foundation recently posted a summary article on 9 main ways the new health care reform law may affect people in 2011; 5 of them specifically affect Medicare beneficiaries. See below or click here to view their full article. Nine Ways the New Health Law May Affect You in 2011 Opponents of the new health care overhaul law are threatening to repeal, defund and … [Read more...] about Learn How Health Care Reform May Affect You in 2011

Filed Under: Health Care Reform Tagged With: 50% discount, donut hole, health care reform, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Part D prescription drugs

Learn the Inside Scoop for Consumers on Health Care Reform

Posted by Karen Fletcher on September 8, 2010

Bonnie Burns, our Training and Policy Specialist, is serving on several National Association of Insurance Commissioners' (NAIC) committees that are charged with developing standards for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to use to implement various parts of the health care reform law. Many rules must be written in a short 3-year period to implement the … [Read more...] about Learn the Inside Scoop for Consumers on Health Care Reform

Filed Under: Health Care Reform Tagged With: consumers, health care, health care reform, insurance, pre-retirement

Primary Sidebar

Change Text Size

  • 100%  110%  120%  130%  

News & Blog Categories

  • Medicare Advantage
  • Low-Income help
  • Medicare & Disabilities
  • Medicare Basics
  • Prescription Drugs
  • Medicare & Other Health Insurance
  • Medicare Billings, Claims & Appeals
  • Health Care Disparities
  • Fraud & Abuse

—

  • COVID-19
  • Resources
  • Health Care Reform
  • Long-Term Care
  • CHA News

—

  • Advocacy & Policy
  • Letters and Comments to Policymakers
  • Legislative and Congressional Testimony
  • Policy Briefs

Send Us Comment

Do you have comments or concerns about your Medicare coverage? Issues regarding getting your needed prescriptions from your Part D plan, or a Medicare Advantage plan representative's marketing practices? Let us know at comments@cahealthadvocates.org.

We are dedicated to making Medicare's program work well for all beneficiaries. Your feedback from your own or your client's concerns and experiences with Medicare, will guide our Medicare advocacy efforts with key policy and decision-makers in both California and nationally with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Congress.

Archives

Donate Today

Footer

Sign up for our newsletter

Choose the news you'd like to receive

Important Links

  • About Us
  • Fact Sheets
  • Blog
  • Donate
  • Contact
  • Privacy Notice
  • Cookie Policy
  • Accessibility Statement

Follow Us

Copyright © 2022 · California Health Advocates · Web Design by TWK Web and Print Design · Log in