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Your Help is Needed to Stop a State Budget Cut to StateWide’s Patient Rights Helpline
Please make two calls right away to restore our funding! Call your State Senator at 518-455-2800 and Assembly members at 518-455-4100. Message: My Name is ______ and I am a constituent who supports funding for NY StateWide Senior Action Council's Patients Rights...
Nursing Home Visitation Update
Updates: NYS Nursing Homes are now required to give visitors a rapid COVID test to self-administer upon arrival at the facility: NYS has sent sufficient supplies to the nursing homes. If the facility does not provide a rapid test, visitors cannot be required to test...
Biden-Harris Administration Will Cover Free Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Tests Through Medicare
NEWS ALERT Contact: CMS Media Relations February 3, 2022 Biden-Harris Administration Will Cover Free Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Tests Through Medicare CMS Developing Initiative to Enable Access to Eight Free Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Tests for Medicare Beneficiaries in...
Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage
Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage By Susan Jaffe JANUARY 28, 2022, Kaiser Health News REPUBLISH THIS STORY (ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES) A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against...