About Louisiana SMP
Louisiana Health Care Review, in cooperation with Senior Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) and the Governor’s Office of Elderly Affairs, is pleased to bring the SMP program to Louisiana seniors. Through community outreach events, classroom presentations and one-on-one counseling, seniors will be empowered to prevent healthcare fraud and make an impact on healthcare reform. The SMP Programs |
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| In doing so, they not only protect older persons, they also help preserve the integrity of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Because this work often requires face-to-face contact to be most effective, SMPs nationwide recruit and teach nearly 5,000 volunteers every year to help in this effort. Most SMP volunteers are both retired and Medicare beneficiaries and thus well-positioned to assist their peers. | |
Community Outreach SMP staff and their highly trained volunteers conduct outreach to Medicare beneficiaries in their communities through group presentations, exhibiting at community events, answering calls to the SMP help lines and one-on-one counseling. Their primary goal is to teach Medicare beneficiaries how to protect their personal identity, identify and report errors on their health care bills, and identify deceptive health care practices, such as illegal marketing, providing unnecessary or inappropriate services and charging for services that were never provided. In some cases, SMPs do more than educate: When Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries are unable to act on their own behalf to address these problems, the SMPs work with family caregivers and others to address the problems, and if necessary, make referrals to outside organizations who are able to intervene. |
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Louisiana SMP is a program sponsored by eQHealth Solutions (formerly Louisiana Health Care Review)
and is funded in
part through a grant from the U.S. Administration on Aging.
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Louisiana SMP
8591 United Plaza Boulevard, Suite 270,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70809
Telephone: (225) 248-7028 / Toll Free: (877) 272-8720
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