What is Medicaid?
CMS is the federal agency that oversees the Medicaid program. At this link, there is an explanation of the Medicaid program.
By: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Can you get government health benefits?
This is a free, confidential tool that helps you find government benefits you may be eligible to receive.
By: U.S. Government
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Could my family get public health insurance?
If you do not have insurance, or you have lost your insurance, always check to see whether you or your family may be eligible for one of the public insurance programs. Check out this information to see if you qualify.
By: National Health Law Program - HealthCareCoach.com
Can you get government social security benefits?
This Web site will tell you if you can get benefits from any of the programs Social Security runs: Medicare, Social Security Disability, Social Security Retirement, Social Security Survivors, Special Veterans, or Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
By: Social Security Administration
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Answers to your questions about the Indian Health Service
Can I get benefits? Where can I get care or an application?
By: Indian Health Services
Can you get VA health care benefits?
This Web site explains the rules of who can get veterans health care benefits.
By: Department of Veterans Affairs
Who can get TRICARE?
This Web site expalins the rules for the health care program for active duty and retired members of the uniformed services, their families, and survivors (Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, or the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration).
By: U.S. Department of Defense
Medicaid: What if I am denied coverage for something that I need?
A fact sheet on your appeal rights when Medicaid will not pay for something that you need.
By: National Health Law Program - HealthCareCoach.com
Your guide to the appeal process for private insurance
Here are tips on how to appeal a denial if you have private insurance.
By: Patient Advocate Foundation
Getting your employer to cover speech-language and hearing services
Here are tips on how to ask your employer to add or improve speech and hearing services under your health plan.
By: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Getting Indian Health Service to pay for services
If you are eligible for health care from the Indian Health Service, but the local Service Unit will not pay for the care that you need, this web site might help.
By: Indian Health Service
Find the nearest Indian Health Service facility
Find Indian Health Service Facilities in your area.
By: Indian Health Service
VA Enrollment Benefit Guide
This Web site helps you understand how to get health care services from the VA health care system.
By: Department of Veterans Affairs
What to do when you are denied TRICARE benefits
If you have a dispute with a decision about your benefits made by TRICARE Management Activity (TMA) or by a TRICARE contractor, you have the right to to ask for another opinion on the decision.
By: Department of Defense
New tax credit might help pay insurance premiums
A 2002 law, referred to as “TAA,” provides a health insurance tax credit that may help you pay 65% of the premiums for certain types of health insurance.
By: Health Assistance Partnership
Retiree health insurance benefits
If you are a retiree, under age 65 and your retiree health insurance benefits are being discontinued this information is for you.
By: Health Assistance Partnership
Your employer's bankruptcy: how will it affect your employee benefits?
This information sheet focuses on bankruptcy’s effect on pension plans and group health plans.
By: U.S. Department of Labor
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