Senator Mark Warner: "Enhancing health care choices for seniors"

Senator Mark Warner: "Enhancing health care choices for seniors"
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Hey, another step to health care reform, proposed new legislaton from Senator Mark Warner, Enhancing health care choices for seniors

The Senior Navigation and Planning Act of 2009 will:

  • enhance Medicare and Medicaid coverage of advanced illness care management services;
  • require doctors to provide patients with information on living wills and other planning tools;
  • give providers incentives to achieve accreditation and certification in hospice and palliative care;
  • encourage more comprehensive discharge planning; and
  • increase public awareness about the importance of end-of-life planning.

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