Medicare Rights Center Inc

EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH: Medicare Rights' expert print and online resources and trainings, provided through Medicare Interactive (www.medicareinteractive.org), answered 2.1 million Medicare questions and empowered professionals across the country to better serve their own older clients and those with disabilities. As part of this work, Medicare Rights offers its training and certification services to Medicare counselors nationally through the State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) Technical Assistance Center and the Senior Medicare Patrol Resource Center.

Policy: Medicare Rights carried the stories of the clients it serves to meetings of policymakers and other stakeholders in New York and Washington, DC., and media placements totaled 1,596. Medicare Rights also led 249 presentations and trainings to translate Medicare policy into consumer-friendly language and circulated Medicare newsletters and other communications to a list of more than 124,574 readers.

ENROLLMENT SERVICES: Medicare Rights submitted more than 2,186 Medicare cost-saving benefit applications for its clients, saving enrolled individuals $11.5 million in out-of-pocket health care costs and increasing their access to needed care and medicines.