Coventry Health Care and the National Council on Aging Form Partnership to Help Seniors Find Benefit Programs.WASHINGTON -- Coventry Health Care Coventry Health Care, Inc. (Coventry) (NYSE: CVH) is a managed health care company in the United States. On February 8th of 2007 Coventry agreed to acquire Concentra's Workers Compensation Managed Care Services Businesses. External links
See: New York Stock Exchange :CVH CVH Helicopter Carrier CVH Compound-valve-angle Hemispherical Combustion-chamber (Ford cylinder head design and family of engines) CVH Compound Valve Angle Hemispheral Combustion Chamber CVH continuous venous hemodialysis ), a diversified national managed healthcare company, and the National Council on Aging (NCOA NCOA National Change Of Address (USPS) NCOA National Council On the Aging NCOA Nuclear Receptor Coactivator NCOA National Corvette Owners Association NCoA New Care-Of Address NCOA Non-Commissioned Officer Academy ) today announced a partnership to help Coventry's members find and apply for publicly available benefits programs for which they may be eligible. The partnership provides Coventry Health Care with its own version of NCOA's BenefitsCheckUp, the nation's most comprehensive Web-based service to screen for benefits programs primarily targeted to seniors with limited income and resources. "Partnering with NCOA will enable our Medicare-eligible customers to learn about BenefitsCheckUp and have access to assistance programs across the nation," said Fran Soistman, executive vice president of Coventry Health Care. "We are also proud to support NCOA and its important work in improving the lives of older Americans." Since 2001, close to 2 million people have used BenefitsCheckUp to find benefits programs that help them pay for prescription drugs prescription drug Prescription medication Pharmacology An FDA-approved drug which must, by federal law or regulation, be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription–eg, finished dose form and active ingredients subject to the provisos of the Federal Food, Drug, , health care, rent, utilities, and other needs. It includes more than 1,400 public and private benefits programs from all 50 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . "A key part of NCOA's mission is related to improving the health of older Americans," said Stuart Spector, senior vice president of NCOA. "Through this partnership, we hope to help thousands of seniors find programs that will enhance the quality of their lives." BenefitsCheckUp will be especially helpful to the estimated three million people with Medicare nationwide with limited income and resources that have yet to sign up for Medicare Part D's Extra Help (the Low Income Subsidy). Beneficiaries can use BenefitsCheckUp to find out if they are eligible for Extra Help and other key federal and state benefits programs. By enrolling through BenefitsCheckUp's Medicare Rx Extra Help Online Application, people with Medicare who qualify can save an average of $3,700 a year. To learn more about how a partnership with BenefitsCheckUp can help improve the lives of older Americans, contact Molly Dworken at 202.479.6668, or visit www.BenefitsCheckUp.org. About Coventry Health Care Coventry Health Care (www.cvty.com) is a diversified national managed healthcare company based in Bethesda, Maryland Bethesda is an urbanized, but unincorporated, area in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, just Northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a church located there, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, built in 1820 and rebuilt in 1850, which in turn took its name from , operating health plans, insurance companies, network rental and workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. services companies. Through its Commercial Business, Individual Consumer & Government Business, and Specialty Business Divisions, Coventry provides a full range of risk and fee-based managed care products and services to a broad cross section of individuals, employer and government-funded groups, government agencies, and other insurance carriers and administrators. About NCOA The mission of the National Council on Aging is to improve the lives of older Americans. NCOA programs help older people remain healthy and independent, find jobs, access benefits programs, and discover meaningful ways to continue contributing to society. A non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. with a national network of more than 14,000 organizations and leaders, NCOA was founded in 1950 and is based in Washington, DC. For more information about NCOA, please visit www.NCOA.org. |
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