Health Reform: Key Medicare Changes Effective in 2010

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Health Assistance Partnership
HAP recognizes that in the coming months SHIPs will be asked a number of questions about the changes to Medicare under health reform. The new law includes immediate and important changes to the Medicare program that affect access to care for beneficiaries as well as SHIP program operations. Here is the first of three fact sheets that describe the changes affecting SHIPs and Medicare beneficiaries in the near future.