More Strategies and Tools to Help QMB Clients

Conference Call
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
3:00 p.m. EDT

HAP received considerable feedback from the SHIP community after the August conference call, Strategies and Tools to Help Your QMB-Eligible Clients. SHIPs were interested in learning more about why Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries (QMB) are exempt from Medicare cost-sharing charges as well as sharing their own experiences in assisting their QMB clients. Due to the strong interest this topic has generated across the SHIP community over the last few months, HAP's September conference call again focused on QMB clients, including actions SHIPs at the local and state level can pursue to assist their clients.

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Resources

• CMS State Guide to Integrated Medicare & Medicaid Models
• Statutory Language Protecting QMBs
• Excerpt of Chapter 3 of CMS's State Medicaid Manual: Payment to Providers (see red text)
• Center for Medicare Advocacy Weekly Alert: Medicare Cost-Sharing for Dual Eligibles: Who Pays What for Whom?
• CMS Memo: Medicare Cost Sharing for Medicaid Beneficiaries
• CMS Memo: Medicaid Obligations for Medicare Cost Sharing in Medicare Part C Plans
• CMS Memo: Policy Memo on Medicaid Obligations to Pay Medicare Cost-sharing Expenses for QMBs in Medicare HMOs
• CMS Letter to State Medicaid Directors
• CMS Report: State Payment Limitations on Medicare Cost Sharing: Impacts on Dually Eligible Beneficiaries and Their Providers
• Getting Started: What SHIPs Need to Know — Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries (QMB) and Medicare Cost Sharing

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