CMA's 2022 National Voices of Medicare Summit & Senator Jay Rockefeller Lecture
The Center for Medicare Advocacy (CMA) will hold its 9th annual National Voices of Medicare Summit & Senator Jay Rockefeller Lecture via virtual presentation on May 18.
The Summit, titled "Medicare in Jeopardy - How Do We Save It?," will include how to best expand Medicare for all beneficiaries, the need for Medicare coverage for audiology and oral health care, and access to Medicare-covered home health care and rehabilitation services - looking at all through a health equity lens.
There will be two panel discussions:
- A Conversation with Medicare Directors: A Vision for Medicare to Meet Beneficiary Needs
- Enhancing Medicare for All Beneficiaries
This year's Senator Jay Rockefeller Lecturer will be E.J. Dionne, Jr., an American journalist, political commentator, and columnist for the Washington Post. Attorney Wey-Wey Kwok will receive the Alfred J. Chiplin, Jr. Social Justice & Advocacy Award. Other speakers, panelists and moderators include:
- Sean Cavanaugh (Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Policy Officer, Aledade; former Director, Center for Medicare, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
- Dr. Judith Feder (Georgetown Professor and CMA Board President)
- Paula Haney (Director of Rehabilitation, St. Joseph Living Center)
- Dr. Gretchen Jacobson (Vice President of Medicare, Commonwealth Fund)
- Kata Kertesz (Policy Attorney, CMA)
- Eric Krupa (Attorney, CMA)
- Dr. Frank Lin (Director of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University)
- David Lipschutz (Associate Director, CMA)
- Patricia Neuman (Vice President for Medicare, Kaiser Family Foundation)
- Dr. Linda Niessen (Vice Provost for Oral Health Affairs for Kansas City University)
- Dr. Meena Seshamani (Director, Center for Medicare, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
- Judith Stein (Founder/Executive Director, CMA)
- Peter Thomas (Managing Partner, Powers Law)
- Senator Jay Rockefeller
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