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    Medicare Advantage Overpayments
    Undermining Traditional Medicare, Shortchanging Beneficiaries 

    Join three of the nation's leading healthcare advocacy organizations for an informative briefing on Medicare Advantage programs. This presentation will cover the privatization of Medicare including the controversial government overpayments, and the impact this and other changes included in the Medicare Modernization Act are having on the future of traditional Medicare.

    Tuesday, July 17 th
    1:00 - 2:00p
    2218 Rayburn HOB

    Briefing panelists :  

    •  Rep. Frank Pallone, (D-NJ) Chairman of Health Subcommittee, House Committee on Energy and Commerce
    •  Barbara B. Kennelly, President/CEO, The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
    •  Judith Stein, Executive Director, Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc.
    •  Richard Deem, Senior Vice President of Advocacy, American Medical Association
    •  Rev. Sandra Butler-Truesdale, President of the Campbell Heights Resident's Association, Washington , D.C.

    For more information or to attend, please call Ben Belton at 202-216-8377

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    Media Inquiries to:
    Pamela Causey 202-216-8378/202-236-2123
    Kim Wright 202-216-8414

      

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