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Patient Advocate Program Teach in – Recordings

Date: April 2024 – TOPIC: How to Appeal a Hospital or Nursing Home Discharge or Complaint About the Quality of Care from a Health Care Provider; Speaker: Brian Y. Fischer, Community Outreach and Education Coordinator and Provider Relations, Livanta LLC (a Medicare Beneficiary and Family Centered Care Quality Improvement Organization)

Date: March 2024 – TOPIC: Complaining About Hospital Care to the NYS Department of Health; Speaker: Marcus Harazin, Patient Advocate Program Coordinator, NY StateWide Senior Action Council

Date: February 2024 – TOPIC: An Introduction to Mental Hygiene Legal Service; Speaker: Sheila E. Shea Director, Mental Hygiene Legal Service, New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third District

Date: January 2024 – TOPIC: New Health Insurance Option for Undocumented Immigrants aged 65 and older; Speaker: Megan Gagliardi, Assistant Director Bureau of Community Enrollment and Eligibility Processing NYS Department of Health

Date: November 2023 – TOPIC: Successful Prosecution of Health Care Fraud in NYS; Speakers: Christopher R. Moran, Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of NY and Emily Auletta, Special Assistant Attorney General, NYS Attorney General’s Office Medicaid Fraud Control Unit

Date: October 2023 – TOPIC: Open Enrollment 2024; Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 Time: 10:00 AM—11:00 AM
Speaker: Kathleen Otte, Regional Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Date: September 2023 – TOPIC: Speakers: Shahad Alahmoud, Pharmacy Resident; Andrea Rivera and Artem Belyakov Pharmacy Interns, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Services

Date: May 2023 – TOPIC: The Prior Approval Process for Needed Medications and How to Appeal; Speakers: Shahad Alahmoud, Pharmacy Resident; Andrea Rivera and Artem Belyakov Pharmacy Interns, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Services

Date: April, 2023: Topic: National Emerging Drug Threats in the United States; Speaker: John L. Eadie, Public Health and Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) Project Coordinator

Date: March 21, 2023: Topic: Personal Medical Debt in New York State and How to Prevent Aggressive Debt Collection Practices; Speaker: Carrie Tracy, JD; Senior Director, Health Initiatives, Community Service Society of New York

Date: February 28, 2023; Topic: “; Learn About Autopsies and the Role of the Coroner”Speaker: Margaret Luck, Fulton County Coroner

Date: January 24, 2023: Unwinding After the Public Health Emergency Ends: Transitions to Coverage and Assistance Under Medicare, Medicaid & the Medicare Savings Program; Speaker: Frank M. Winter, Regional Training Lead, Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Regional Office

Patient Advocate Webinar Teach in – January 24, 2023

Updated 1-27-23 (Medicaid.gov): State Health Official Letter outlines new requirements in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 that impact state activities for the Medicaid and CHIP Programs to unwind from the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Topic: Unwinding After the Public Health Emergency Ends: Transitions to Coverage and Assistance Under Medicare, Medicaid & the Medicare Savings Program.

Speakers: Frank M. Winter, Regional Training Lead, Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Regional Office

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