Supplemental Health Insurance

Health Insurance Counseling

Supplemental Health Insurance counselors

provide free guidance to EBCI elders and disabled members to make them aware of any and all alternative resources that are available to them within our five-county service area. You’ll receive unbiased information in simple-to-understand language.

We work in conjunction with multiple service providing agencies on the Qualla Boundary and with Federal and North Carolina state agencies.

SHIP can provide assistance for:

  • Disability claims
  • Vocational rehabilitation referrals
  • Medicare enrollment
  • Medicare Part B payments
  • Medicare Part B reimbursements
  • Medicare Part D comparisons/questions
  • Medicare Part D enrollment
  • Hearing aid purchases
  • Transportation to service facilities/disability appointments
  • SSI reinstatement
  • SSDI overpayment cases
  • Early retirement counseling

Twice a year – in June and December – we hold Supplemental Security Income (SSI) spend down clinics. You are encouraged to bring your GenWell and/or Per Capita check stubs and receipts to get your SSI reinstated.

Supplemental Health Insurance

43 John Crowe Hill Dr
PO Box 666
Cherokee, NC 28719

Michael Quillen
Interim Manager
828-359-6194
michquil@ebci-nsn.gov

828-359-6180 (main)

Hours:
Monday – Friday
7:45 am – 4:30 pm

For any questions regarding Social Security or Disability, call the
Franklin Social Security Office at 866-562-0738 or the SHIP office at 828-359-6183, for hearing aid questions call 828-359-6187

Medicaid Expansion

North Carolina Medicaid now covers people ages 19 through 64 years with higher incomes. You may be able to get health care coverage through Medicaid even if you did not qualify before. NC Medicaid pays for doctor visits, yearly check-ups, emergency care, dental care, mental health and more – at little or no cost to you.
https://medicaid.ncdhhs.gov/

How We Can Assist You

  • Explain how government programs work
  • Assist with filling out paperwork for those in need (illiterate)
  • Research and gather information
  • Deliver paperwork to the proper destination
  • Make appointments
  • Answer Medicare questions
  • Purchase hearing aids
  • Order new Social Security or Medicare cards

Outreach programs include community meetings, medicare training seminars, participation in health fairs and Elders Day Celebration, and visits to Tsali Manor

 

 

 

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