The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) National Medicare Training Program is pleased to provide this Resource Guide for Partners. The Guide contains a comprehensive list of available publications, references, and tools useful in conducting Medicare outreach and for providing personalized counseling and assistance to people with Medicare and their family and friends who help them.
These resources include:
- Publications, fact sheets, and tip sheets
- Operational guidance, manuals, and memorandums
- Regulations, reports, and testimonies
- Training materials and tools including classroom modules, web-based lessons, archived audio conferences and webcasts, and other online tools
- Media releases, public service announcements, templates, and graphics
- Contacts, publication ordering instructions, and web links for medicare.gov and cms.hhs.gov websites
Resources are shown in multiple formats, for maximum flexibility and ease of use:
- Descriptions of all items along with live links to the latest versions
- CMS recommendations in PDF format, marked with a shooting star
- Alternative formats (audiotape, Braille, large print)
- Languages other than English
- Quick and easy key-word search using Adobe Acrobat
Resources are organized by topic under separate tabs. For each resource, the guide lists title, web address, link, publication date, publication number, length, publisher, appropriate audience, and a brief description that includes format and language translations. Topics include:
1. Overview & Original Medicare
3. Medigap & Medicare Advantage
5. Employer & Other Insurance
7. Medicare Preventive Services
In general, CMS provides resources on two platforms, each designed for a different audience. Each resource listed in the Guide indicates the intended audience.
- www.medicare.gov for beneficiaries, people with Medicare and their family and friends who assist them. These resources convey program information in simple language
- www.cms.hhs.gov for partners including health plans, health care providers, agencies, and community-level organizations. These resources provide detailed program information on specific topics
Resource Guide for Partners CD-ROM
This Resource Guide for Partners contains the following files:
- Contents—Table of contents with links to each section
- Each section contains a list of products with links to files that can be copied, distributed, or printed to help you in conducting Medicare outreach or counsel people with Medicare.
- Some products are shown with a shooting star to indicate a CMS recommendation. These files are included in PDF format, where available.
A PDF version of the entire Resource Guide that is searchable and can be printed – simply open the Resource Guide PDF file and follow the instructions on the first page.
To view the files on this CD, you must have both Adobe Reader and Internet Explorer (or another compatible web browser) installed on your computer. To view zipped files you must have WinZip installed. To view video files or the recorded webinar you may need QuickTime.
Instructions
- This CD works on either a Macintosh or a PC Windows computer.
- The CD opens to the index automatically if autoplay is enabled on your computer.
- If CD does not open automatically, double-click on Index.htm to start.
- Click on the section of your choice to explore available information and products.
- Click on web links to view the most recent update of each document on the website. If you have Internet connectivity, we recommend that you access documents in this way because the website contains the most up-to-date version.
- CMS recommendations are shown with a shooting star and are provided in PDF format when available. You can click on the PDF icon to view these documents as of April 2007. These PDF files are provided to assist partners who may experience delays in downloading files from the Internet. Partners may also choose to view this static version of a document when Internet access is not available. (Please be aware that the April 2007 PDF versions of these documents may become outdated over time.)
- To explore another category, click on Return to Main Menu at the top of the screen.
Searchable PDF of Resource Guide
The PDF version of this Resource Guide for Partners is searchable in Adobe Reader.
Open the PDF document and simply click on the binoculars in the toolbar, or use the menu at the top of the PDF file and go to "Edit" and then select "Find." Enter the word or phrase that you would like to search for — such as "Part D", "Employer", or any other word or phrase — and click on the "Next" button. Adobe Reader will list all of the places in the document where that word or phrase occurs.
It's that simple!
Search Tips
- Remember to use resources displaying NEW
- Click on the web address for most recent update
- Look for the Part D Training Modules in section 4
The April 2007 update includes key works or phrases to help you search, shown below.
| If you are looking for... | Use phrase or keyword |
| Medicare Learning Network (MLN) article, memo, update, press release, listserv, notice to plans...
| Latest notice |
| Brochure, pamphlet, bookmark, poster, chart, table, calendar, giveaway, worksheet, vignettes, case
studies, "what if" scenarios, script, pocket guide, directory, glossary, CD, DVD, resource guide,
resource kit, toolkit... | Job aid, visual aid, or tool |
| Training, training slides, training events, training module, training materials... | Classroom
training
| | Comparison web tool, online tool, portal, "finder"... | Online tool |
| Website with dedicated content on a specific topic | Site, web page, or URL |
| Website with many types of resources, or a long list of resources, including reports of various kinds... |
Library |
| Drop-in article, public service announcement (PSA), newsletter... | Outreach tool |
| Cable television, webcast archive, webinar, video, interactive online training, e-learning,
computer-based training, web-based training, distance learning, alternative training platforms |
Multimedia
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| Letter, mailing, correspondence, or model notice sent to beneficiaries/people with Medicare by plans,
SSA, CMS... | Sample or model letter, mailing, or notice |
| Data, report, law, legislative summary, Federal Register, policy, issue paper, instructions,
clarifications, manual, or guidance to states, facilities, pharmacies, providers, or plans... |
Reference |
| Fact sheet with an assigned CMS publication number, and available for ordering in bulk... | Fact
sheet |
| Fact sheet without an assigned CMS publication number, and only available in downloadable form for mass
reproduction, but cannot be ordered in bulk... | Tip sheet |
| Detailed CMS publication, handbook... | Booklet |
| CMS, SSA, health plan form to fax or mail in... | Forms |
| Questions, frequently asked questions (FAQ), Q&A, or QA... | FAQ tool |
Instructions for Saving, Viewing and
Printing a PowerPoint Presentation
Note to Presenters
PowerPoint files often include Speaker's Notes. Instructions are included here to help you access those talking points.
Saving a PowerPoint presentation to your computer
Go to the FILE menu, click SAVE AS
In the FILE NAME box, enter a new name for the file
Select directory where you want to store the document on your computer
Click SAVE
View Slide Show
Go to the VIEW menu and select SLIDE SHOW
To advance slides forward, use Enter key or the arrow keys
To view Speaker’s Notes and/or slides, and edit content
(e.g. put your name and contact information on the first slide)
Go to “View”
Select “Normal”
Note box at bottom of slide and “Click to add notes”, or to edit
To print slide show and Speaker’s Notes on the same page
Go to “File”
Select “Print”
Select “Notes Pages” in pull-down menu under “Print What” (bottom right of dialog box)
To print slides only (as handout)
Go to “File”
Select “Print”
In pull-down menu towards bottom of dialog box, look for “Color/grayscale”select “Pure Black and White”
Select either “Slides”, or “Handouts” in pull-down menu under “Print What” (at bottom right of dialog box)
Select number of slides per page in pull-down menu under “Handouts”
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