CMS Offers Understanding Medicare Training Session for Continuing Education Credit

Understanding Medicare Training Session for Continuing Education Credit (CEU)

This session provides an overview of the Medicare program basics - Part A (Hospital insurance), Part B (Medical Insurance), Part C (Medicare Advantage Plans), Part D (Prescription Drug Coverage), and programs to help people with limited income and resources, and information about additional program resources.

Webinar details:

Date: March 17-18, 2015

Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET, on both days

Who should attend: partners and stakeholders who are required to obtain CEUs

Requirements to earn CEU credit:

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is authorized by IACET to offer 0.4 CEU(s) for this program -Activity Number WE-L03172015. CEU will be awarded to participants who meet all criteria for successful completion of this educational activity. CEU credit for this course expires April 3, 2015.

 To receive credit once per year, participants must:

Complete the registration and save the confirmation with links to access the full curriculum throughout the course

• Complete the pre-assessment prior to March 17, 2015
• Attend all four hours of the training on March 17th and 18th, 2015
• Complete the course evaluation after the training

 How to register: visit

https://cms.confEdge.com/ap/reg/?i=register&e=327DACC8-75D6-4923-8F85-F007120F373A&grp=regnow.

You’ll need to provide a user name and password.

Your user name should be your e-mail address, and your password should be 8 digits long and contain one capital letter and one number. Don’t use any special characters. Please save this information. If you encounter password authentication issues, contact support@conferenceedge.com.

Please visit the Training Offering CEUs page at http://cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Training/CMSNationalTrainingProgram/Training-Offering-Continuing-Education-Units.html for accreditation statements and authors and disclosures information.

Space is limited, and only confirmed participants will receive a confirmation e-mail with webinar participation links and instructions. You may be placed on a wait list/pending status for the next quarterly CEU session or same day entry if space allows. For CEU program questions, send an e-mail to the CMS National Training Program atDTceu@cms.hhs.gov.

If you want to participate in Understanding Medicare but don’t need CEU credit, please register for the March 12 session: https://goto.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1050099.