<aside> <img src="/icons/library_blue.svg" alt="/icons/library_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Support family caregivers: the Executive Order directs HHS to consider testing a new dementia care model that will include support for respite care (short-term help to give a primary family caregiver a break) and make it easier for family caregivers to access Medicare beneficiary information and provide more support to family caregivers during the hospital discharge planning process. 2022 National Strategy to Support Caregivers.
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To have all Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in organizations that coordinate the quality and cost of all their care. Those organizations include the growing number of accountable care organizations (ACOs) that coordinate Medicare beneficiaries’ care.
To help providers better coordinate care, beginning in 2024 Medicare will reimburse providers for helping patients navigate their health care, especially when facing a complicated illness. This change will help keep people healthy and save Medicare money.
Medicare will also begin paying providers to train family caregivers to better help their loved ones.
In 2024 the new drug law is expanding the eligibility for the Extra Help program, which assists people with limited incomes in affording their prescription drug costs, such as premiums and copays. The income threshold for Medicare enrollees to qualify for that program will be 150 percent of the federal poverty level ($21,870 for an individual in 2024), up from 135 percent of poverty.
<aside> ☔ CMS estimate is about 3 million people who are eligible and not enrolled.
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Medicare beneficiaries can apply for the Extra Help program through the Social Security Administration.