Monday, May 19, 2025
5/19/2025
North Dakota SHIP Program Project - The North Dakota Insurance Department’s State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) offers free, and unbiased counseling to Medicare beneficiaries of all ages. The goal is to continue to build the effectiveness of the program, by reaching more beneficiaries to provide awareness and education of how the SHIP program assists Medicare beneficiaries. We will increase our statewide outreach to include counties that are less populated so that we can recruit new volunteers and provide education to rural beneficiaries. The SHIP program is working to establish more processes for innovation to provide education and enrollment assistance by creating online information, such as tutorials on the Plan-Finder, training materials and self-servicing job aids where individuals are looking to navigate Medicare processes on their own. By creating more educational tools this will enable us to serve more beneficiaries in harder to reach areas. This is anticipated to give individuals more confidence in understanding Medicare and its processes. The objectives are 1) increased awareness of the program by developing more organizational partnerships across the state; 2) increasing the number of educational events in rural areas; 3) improve coordination of volunteers through the Volunteer Risk and Program Management policies; 4) providing services to our beneficiaries statewide. The SHIP measurable standards will be used to measure and track the impact these actions are resulting in. The products available for dissemination are palm cards containing SHIP contact information as well as what services the SHIP program can provide. The SHIP staff is developing more job aides and educational tools for volunteers and beneficiaries to better understand Medicare and its processes.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).