Would
you like to check out a recording brought to you by
the Medicare Rights Center?
Medicare
is making some changes to costs and coverage that may
affect you in the New Year. To help you understand and
prepare for these changes, the Medicare Rights Center
is offering an online presentation, “Changes to
Medicare in 2009.” You will learn about the following:
Increased
Premiums, Deductibles and Copayments
Extra Help Changes
Expanded Part D Off-Label Coverage for Anti-Cancer Drugs
Ongoing and Recent Changes
New Advance Beneficiary Notices (ABNs)
New Claims Processing Offices (Medicare Administrative
Contractors)
Extension of Therapy Cap Exceptions
New Marketing Protections for Consumers
What You Should Be Doing Now
Changes
to Medicare in 2009
Long
Island TRIO appeared in college newspapers and on University
blogs this month. They used some of my press conference
quotes from months ago and published the following on
campuses and on blogs.
-
Mike Sosna
The
power to save lives 
November
18, 2008
OPTN/UNOS
Board Addresses Safety for Living Donors
St.
Louis -- The OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors, at its meeting
today, adopted a policy to improve the safety of living
organ donation by specifying that living donor organ
recovery and transplantation must take place in OPTN
member transplant centers.
Check
out this .pdf Choosing a Medigap Policy -2009
Comparing
Medicare Prescription Drug Plans: The Medicare Prescription
Drug Plan Finder
President
George W. Bush signed into law the Stephanie Tubbs-Jones
Congressional Gift of Life Medal Act (HR 7198).
The
above is a beautiful piece of glass mosaic original
artwork by LI TRIO member, Al Ferrro. It's beautiful
and a reproduction is here for your enjoyment now.
THE
WHITE AREA AND BLUE LINE REPRESENTS THE HOSPITAL (MT.
SINAI)
THE GREENISH DARK OVAL REPRESENTS A DISEASED LIVER WITH
THE ZIGZAG RELIEF CUT LINES.
THE PINK OVAL SYMBOLIZES LIFE AND A NEW, HEALTHY LIVER.
THIS LONG YELLOW GLASS RELIEF REPRESENTS A SURGICAL
TOOL.
THE BLUE SKY .. THE BUILDINGS WITH THE BLUE DOOR AND
THE STREET ALL BRINGS YOU BACK TO REALITY. - Al Ferro
Directions
to our monthly meetings:
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Senator Kemp Hannon and Long Island TRIO held
a joint press conference on Valentine's Day- February 14,
2008 
TRIO is represented by the Tree
of Life. With its intertwining branches, the Tree of
Life symbolizes the intertwining of the lives of two
human beings, the donor and the recipient,through the
Gift of Life. It depicts growth and new life and reinforces
the new beginning transplantation gives to the recipient.
