Massachusetts residents with questions about medications or difficulty paying for them can get help.
"Outreach & enrollment" means much more than putting up posters and helping people fill out MassHealth applications. Recently, over the course of a two hour appointment, my supervisor and I counseled one household on eleven different public health insurance, subsidy and care programs. We helped them file four separate applications to five different insurance programs, putting together a patchwork of care options to cover the hole left by the loss of employer-sponsored insurance.
Changes in 2008 FPL guidelines are reflected in new charts for the Low-Income Subsidy (LIS).
Medicare Part D open enrollment begins. On Jan. 1, some LIS members will be assigned a new plan.
MassHealth Advocacy Guide, revised in September 2006, is available.
Medicare members who no longer qualify for MassHealth remain enrolled in Part D plans.
MassHealth safety net for dually eligible members continues.
Eight million with Medicare or Social Security Income are now exempt from the requirement.
CMSP members are some of the first to have access expand under health care reform.
Emergency contraception is now available from some pharmacists without a prescription.
