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This online guide from the Alaska Division of Insurance helps readers to evaluate Medicare choices, providing an overview of Medicare plans, a guide to shopping for Medigap plans, consumer protection tips, and more.

This program works on behalf of elderly Arkansas residents who may become the victims of neglect or abuse, or have dementia and neglect their own needs.

The Center for Medicare Advocacy is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that focuses on the needs of individuals eligible for Medicare by providing education, advocacy and legal assistance.

The Congress of California Seniors focuses on legislative and consumer issues that impact older adults and serves as a major progressive voice for seniors, their families and their communities.

This site, posted by the Utah Department of Human Services, provides information on adult protective services, health insurance information, legal services  and nutrition counseling. Answers questions about eligibility, services, and where to go to to tap into the  service.

HealthInsight is the peer review organization serving the State of Utah.Peer Review Organizations are non-governmental, physician-sponsored organizations contracted with Medicare to monitor the hospital Prospective Payment System and perform utilization and quality review functions.

The Health Services Advisory Group helps health care organizations improve quality and provides information for Medicare consumers on its Web site.

A service that aids Arkansas nursing home residents.

South Carolina’s program to advocate for residents in long term care facilities.

The official U.S. government Medicare consumer handbook.

The Medicare Rights Center is a national, nonprofit consumer service organization that works to ensure access to affordable health care for older adults and people with disabilities through counseling and advocacy, educational programs and public policy initiatives.

Medicare.gov is the U.S. government’s compendium of Medicare-related information, including up-to-date information about Original Medicare, Medicare Advantage and Medigap, Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage and beyond.

Contact information for local counselors who help South Carolina Medicare recipients understand their benefits.

This Medicare Protection Toolkit contains information Alabama beneficiaries need to protect their Medicare.

HHS Secretary Kathy Sebelius release a report on Medicare fraud prevention and discuss new efforts to fight fraud using new tools provided by the Affordable Care Act.

A press release from HealthReform.gov outlines Medicare fraud prevention tools and provisions of the Affordable Care Act that expand consumer protections.