Nebraska Department of Insurance
THE NEBRASKA HEALTH INSURANCE INFORMATION, COUNSELING, AND ASSISTANCE (NICA) PROGRAM
DECEMBER 2002 NICA NEWS
Trainer Notes
Happy Holidays!
With the Fall Update trainings behind us, I've been busy answering all of your wonderful questions, preparing new 2003 materials, and starting to update the NICA manual for Spring 2003. We managed to make it through the five trainings with only one bad-weather day (of course, snow and ice hit the first training in Kearney, and the last training a month later in North Platte in mid-November was 60 degrees and sunshine!) We had a great attendance at the fall updates, with over 70% of all volunteers attending. Of course, we would like this number to reach 100%, so those of you who attended, please tell those who missed about all the exciting things you learned about Advanced Beneficiary Notices, the Nursing Home Quality Initiative, the Outpatient Prospective Payment System, Medicaid, Home Health, and everything in between!Next spring, we will be having Update trainings for current volunteers and Initial trainings for new volunteers. If you have any recommendations for locations for the meetings, topics to be covered, or any comments on the Update training you attended this fall, please let me know. It was great to meet most of the NICA volunteers in person, and I was impressed by the depth of experience and knowledge possessed by the volunteers I met at the trainings. Some of the successful, innovative outreach efforts were inspiring. I am currently finalizing a few answers to the many good questions we discussed at the trainings, and you can be looking in your mailbox to receive those soon.
Take care, and I'll see you in 2003!