Learn about the different “Parts” of Medicare, supplemental plans, decisions to make during open enrollment, and how it works with other insurance. We’ll close with a hands-on workshop to compare Medicare plans using Triage Cancer's Medicare Options Comparison Worksheet.
September 26, 2024
9:30am PT / 11:30am CT /12:30pm ET
Duration: 120 minutes
Course Level: Beginner
Register for Triage Health: Medicare 101 directly below. To register for multiple 2024 Triage Cancer webinars at once, visit the main Webinar page.
Participants who need accommodations for a disability should email webinars@triagecancer.org.
During this live and interactive webinar, social workers and nurses in attendance learn about Medicare, including eligibility, the different parts of the program, choice beneficiaries have regarding coverage, how Medicare works with other types of insurance, as well as introduction to resources useful for comparing different plans, and information about programs available for financial assistance.
This webinar will provide social workers, nurses, and other types of health care professionals with a foundation to help patients make decisions about Medicare and provide appropriate referrals. All attendees will have the opportunity to ask the speakers questions in real-time via a chat box.
Triage Cancer is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses who meet the requirements will be awarded 2.0 contact hour.
120 minutes of instruction/60 minutes = 2.0 contact hour
Triage Cancer, #1689, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Triage Cancer maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/26/2023 to 08/26/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 2.0 continuing education credit.
Triage Cancer is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0626. Social workers completing this course will receive 2.0 contact hours.
Application pending for Social Work in NJ through NASW-NJ.
Board Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA) Program Approval Code: BCPA-ACE2006.20240926
Triage Cancer is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits(PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.
If you would like a general certificate of completion, you must indicate that when completing the webinar evaluation form. You must attend the entire event.
Evaluation forms are emailed after the webinar and are required for a certificate. You will also receive a post-test, which is not mandatory, but strongly encouraged.
In order to receive CE/contact hour/PDC, attendees must register individually. Participants who “listen in” on another participant’s phone/computer will not be eligible for credit. Participants must attend the entire webinar. No partial credit will be given.
Participants will be emailed a link to the online evaluation and post-test one DAY after the completion of the webinar and will have one week to complete both. Participants must receive a passing grade (80%) on the post-test to receive CE/contact hour (only required for nurses and social workers). Participants who do not pass the post-test will be given one opportunity to re-take the test. Instructions and a link to re-take the exam will be emailed to every participant who does not receive a passing grade on the post-test. If participants do not pass the post-test on the second attempt they will not receive credit.
The relevant certificates will be emailed to eligible attendees within 4 weeks of the event.
Questions about Triage Cancer’s accreditation can be made by phone at424.456.4628 or via email at CE@TriageCancer.org. Complaints may be filed via fax (424) 258-7064, email CE@TriageCancer.org or by mail to 6348N. Milwaukee Ave. #136, Chicago, IL 60646.
While this educational program has received commercial support from the previously listed sponsors the content of the program has no relation to the commercial interest of the organization’s products or services.
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Presenting this webinar is Triage Cancer Staff Attorney, Amanda Goodstadt, Esq.
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