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 Brown Bag Series

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This multi-media training series will provide you with an overview of  different disability topics.  At the end of each session, we have included resources and links for additional information on this topic.

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Daniel Fortuno
Daniel Fortuño

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23 min.
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Daniel Fortuño, Executive Director of Options: A Benefits Training Foundation
Title: Private Health Coverage

Daniel Fortuño is the Founder and Executive Director of Options: A Benefits Training Foundation. Options is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to “ensure economic security for people with disabilities and a stronger society by addressing how to access services to meet basic needs from income to health coverage and removing barriers to employment.”

In this video Daniel Fortuno answers the following:

  • How employer-sponsored health coverage may be an under-utilized and unknown “work incentive”?

  • How individuals living with disabilities may be able to enroll in and access private health coverage through employment, unions, and associations?

  • What pre-existing condition exclusionary periods are for private health coverage? 

  • How individuals may be able to use previous coverage to reduce pre-existing condition exclusionary periods for private health coverage?

Resources

Kaiser Family Foundation (State Health Fact Sheets) - http://www.statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi

Family USA - http://www.familiesusa.org/

High Risk Health Insurance Plans - http://www.healthinsurance.org/riskpoolinfo.html

Self-employed Country - http://www.selfemployedcountry.org/riskpools/states.html

Institute for Health Care Research and Policy, Georgetown University - http://www.healthinsuranceinfo.net

State Insurance Department - http://www.naic.org/state_contacts/sid_websites.htm

National Portal (The Authortive Source for Regulatory Insurance Information) - http://www.naic.org/NBP/Basic.jsp

VCU-BARC Briefing Papers - http://www.vcu-barc.org/news.html

VCU-BARC FAQs - http://www.vcu-barc.org/FAQs.html
 

This activity was funded by Contract # 0600-98-35487 (BARC) | Grant # H133B040011 (RRTC)


Previous Brown Bag Seminars

Karen Tritz Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
Presenter: Karen Tritz - Policy Consultant
Jim Rothrock Untapped Resource - Pool of Qualified Potential Employees
Presenter: Jim Rothrock, President, The Rothrock Group, Ltd .

Lex Frieden

Future Outlook of Employment for People with Disabilities
Presenter: Lex Frieden, Sr. VP at TIRR; Dir. of TIRR's ILRU; & Professor of PM&R at Baylor College of Medicine
Original Source: RRTC & PMR's Spinal Cord Injury and Employment Telecast, June 23,2004

Cheryl Al-Mateen

Seeking Mental Health Treatment - A Primer for African Americans
Presenter: Cheryl S. Al-Mateen, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University

Justin Dart

Max Starkloff reads the Farewell Message of Justin Dart Jr.
Justin Dart, Jr
. advocated for human rights for over four decades. He served five Presidential appointments in the area of disability policy.

Manpower photo

Manpower, VCU-RRTC, & SunTrust Bank Put Ability to Work in the 21st Century
Millie Hewett, MANPOWER; Paul Wehman, VCU-RRTC; C.T. Hill, CEO, SunTrust Bank; Katherine McCary,  SunTrust Bank; Howard Green, VCU-RRTC
 

Debra Ruh's photo

Telecommuting and People with Disabilities
Debra Ruh, C.E.O. TecAccess, Over 75% of the staff at TecAccess are people with disabilities.

Photo of Connie Ferrell

Work Incentives Associated with Medical Insurance Coverage
Connie Ferrell is a consultant and trainer providing information on employment and inclusion for people with disabilities.

Susan Omara

SSI and Work Incentives - 1619b
Susan O'Mara is the Technical Assistance Associate with the Virginia Commonwealth University Project Office

Laurie Ford

Employment & Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
Laurie Ford, Dir. for Community Rehab Training at the Center for Continuing Ed in Rehab (CCER), WWU

Paul Wehman

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Return to Work - Case Study
Dr. Paul Wehman, Professor, VCU & Director of the RRTC on Workplace Supports

don shrey

Disability Management Best Practices
Don Shrey, Ph.D., C.R.C. is the President of Advanced Transitions, Inc. an international consulting business

photo lex frieden

Investing in People Through Technology
Lex Frieden, Sr VP,  Institute for Rehabilitation & Research, Houston,TX
 

Paul Wehman

Supported Employment Best Practices
Dr. Paul Wehman, Professor, VCU & Director of the RRTC on Workplace Supports

Wendy Wood and Larry Cooper

Self Determination
Wendy Wood, Associate Professor, UNC
Larry Cooper, Self-Advocate

Photo Ken McGill

Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act 
Ken McGill

 


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