Benefits Checkup

This section offers a variety of written materials on benefits outreach and enrollment produced by the Center and its national partners.

Reports by the Center/NCOA

• "Person-Centered Benefits Access: Lessons Learned from the Benefits Enrollment Centers’ First Year" September 2010.
  
  
• "The Aging Services Network and the Use of Online Screening and Application Technology." January 2010.
  
  
• "NCOA–NASUA Survey of State Units on Aging on the Use of Online Screening and Application Technology." January 2010.
  
  
• "NCOA–n4a Survey of Area Agencies on Aging on the Use of Online Screening and Application Technology." January 2010.
  
  
• "Community Strategies: Maximizing Your Benefits Outreach and Enrollment Resources (A Toolkit for Community-Based Organizations)." November 2008.
  
  
• "Community Solutions: Lessons Learned from the My Medicare Matters Low-Income Subsidy Demonstration Program." July 2008.
  
  
• "Pathways to Success: Meeting the Challenges of Enrolling Medicare Beneficiaries in with Limited Incomes - A Report to the Nation from ABC" 2006.
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• "The Next Steps: Strategies to Improve the Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy." January 2007.
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Reports by Partners

• "Medicaid Enrollment and Spending Trends." Kaiser Family Foundation, October 2007.
  
  
• Fox, Kimberly and Sia, Jasmine. "Maximizing Medicare Savings Program Enrollment through Medicare Part D." State Solutions, May 2005.
  
  
• Horner, Dawn. C. "Building an On-Ramp to Children's Health Coverage: A Report on California's Express Lane Eligibility Program." The Kaiser Family Foundation, September 2004.
  
  
• Moon, Marilyn, et. al. "Medicare Beneficiaries and their Assets." The Kaiser Family Foundation, June 2002.
  
  
• Nemore, Patricia et. al. "Toward Making Medicare Work for Low-Income Beneficiaries: A Baseline Comparison of the Part D Low-Income Subsidy and Medicare Savings Programs Eligibility and Enrollment Rules." The Kaiser Family Foundation, May 2006.
  
  
• Sia, Jasmine; Fox, Kimberly; and Reinhard, Susan. "Improving Access to Health Care in a Changing Landscape: Facilitating Enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs and Medicare Part D." State Solutions, September 2005.
  
  
• Summer, Laura L. "Accomplishments and Lessons from the State Solutions Initiative To Increase Enrollment in the Medicare Savings Programs." Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, May 2006.
  
  
• Summer, Laura L and Ihara, Emily S. "Simplifying Enrollment in Medicaid and Medicare Savings Programs for the Elderly and Individuals with Disabilities." AARP Public Policy Institute, December 2005.