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HAP's High Five

1. Your frontline experience can help shape CMS guidance. We encourage you to submit comments on the Medicare Advantage (MA) Enrollment and Disenrollment Guidance and the Prescription Drug Plan (PDP) Guidance on Eligibility, Enrollment and Disenrollment. Visit HAP's new Public Comments Process center for more information.
   

   
   

2. Happy National Volunteer Week! As you take a moment to celebrate your volunteers, HAP is also pausing to recognize all that volunteers do to support SHIPs.

   
   

3. Check out Alabama’s new volunteer recruitment video online! Created during a Collaborative State Project, it will be used at community outreach events. You can view using Windows Media Player or Real Player.
   

   
   

4. Did you use HAP’s MA Counseling Booklet, Making Informed Decisions, during the OEP? We want your feedback! Please take a moment to fill out a short evaluation form.
   

   
   

5. In updated guidance on creditable coverage determinations and related late enrollment penalty issues, CMS announced simplified steps that beneficiaries must take to verify prior creditable coverage.