{"id":25971,"date":"2026-05-15T10:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25971"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:15:23","slug":"proposed-modernization-of-the-medicare-savings-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25971","title":{"rendered":"Proposed modernization of the Medicare Savings Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To simplify access to the Medicare Savings Programs (MSPS), the Aging &amp; Disability Health Policy Lab has drafted four model policies. Medicare Savings Programs are special benefit programs sponsored by state Medicaid agencies. They are designed to relieve some (or all) out-of-pocket Medicare expenses for people with limited means. Lindsey Copeland, writing for the Medicare Rights Organization, explains what the proposed modernization of the Medicare Savings programs could achieve. Read Ms. Copeland\u2019s article <a title=\"here\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicarerights.org\/medicare-watch\/2026\/05\/14\/new-model-policies-seek-to-simplify-medicare-savings-program-access\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To simplify access to the Medicare Savings Programs (MSPS), the Aging &amp; Disability Health Policy Lab has drafted four model<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,20,16,6],"tags":[80,385,238,67,61,940,94],"class_list":["post-25971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-savings-programs","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25972,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971\/revisions\/25972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}