Workshop On Low-Income Medicare Drug Assistance 6/8/2005
Barbara Jordan Conference Center, Washington, D.C.
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The Kaiser Family Foundation hosts this workshop on reaching and enrolling eligible low-income seniors for additional assistance with premiums and cost-sharing under the new Medicare drug benefit. The workshop includes updates on outreach and enrollment efforts from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Social Security Administration and perspectives on the challenges and strategies ahead. The discussion also addresses lessons learned from efforts to enroll low-income seniors for transitional assistance under the Medicare drug discount card program, which will be replaced by the new Medicare drug benefit in January 2006.
For more information, please read a new Kaiser Family Foundation fact-sheet on Low-Income Assistance Under the Medicare Drug Benefit.
Moderator:
Overview of the low-income assistance created under the new Medicare drug benefit:
Panelists:
- Beatrice Disman, New York regional commissioner and chair, Medicare Taskforce, Social Security Administration
- James Firman, president and CEO, National Council on the Aging and chair, Access to Benefits Coalition
- Vicki Gottlich, senior policy attorney, Center for Medicare Advocacy Inc.
- Michael R. McMullan, deputy director for beneficiary services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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