Faster Assistance for Medicare Patients

The NY Times  The New Old Age Caring and Coping  August 23, 2013, By JUDITH GRAHAM    Just over a year ago, Medicare quality improvement organizations (Q.I.O.’s) across the country began a practice known as “immediate advocacy.”  These government-financed organizations have long helped older adults who appealed discharges from hospitals and other facilities or who had serious complaints about the quality of medical care. But these complaints often took months to investigate and resolve.  Read more