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Eliminating Medicare Restrictions to Essential Services and Equipment - What Can You Do? Webinar

Hosted by National Spinal Cord Injury Association, this free webinar will focus on how Medicare has undertaken many changes to therapy services, prescription drug coverage and medical equipment purchases critical to beneficiaries with disabilities. These changes have serious impacts on the accessibility, affordability and quality of needed care. This webinar describes those issues within the Medicare program that impact you, including the following:

  • The development of and the need for a separate benefit for customized rehab technology for people with disabilities;
  • The importance of eliminating outpatient rehabilitation therapy payment caps; and,
  • The support of implementing an appeals process for seniors on Medicare Part D dependent on ‘specialty tier’ prescription drugs

Are you an individual living with a disability that depends on Medicare coverage or a caregiver to someone who does? If so, this webinar will be an eye-opening discussion of how Medicare is already restricting your healthcare and how some in Congress would like to place more of the burden of cost and acquiring insurance on you in the future.

Learn how to impact policy change through self-advocacy and community activism and how to bring the issues that matter most to you to politicians on Capitol Hill. Together, we can pave the road to greater equality and independence.

This webinar is the second in a series of webinars to better understand how federal programs work, or don't work, on behalf of people with disabilities.

Provided by: Alexandra Bennewith, Director of Government Relations - United Spinal Association

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