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Video: Navigating Open Enrollment

Are you ready for open enrollment? Open enrollment occurs once annually and is the period of time when consumers can make changes to their health insurance benefits.

Watch this webinar for tips and key information as it relates to:

1. Open Enrollment Dates

2. Insurance Terms

3. Key Questions to Ask

4. ACA Plans

5. Medicare

6. Plans + Policies

7. Financial Assistance Programs

Please direct any questions related to this webinar by email to: education@biomatrixsprx.com

Thank you!

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT MEDICAL OR LEGAL ADVICE

All information, content, and material is for informational purposes only and is not intended to serve as a substitute for the consultation, diagnosis, and/or medical treatment of a qualified physician or healthcare provider or as legal advice. Please consult a physician or other health care professional for your specific health care and/or medical needs or concerns and never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read here or on our website.

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Video: Navigating Open Enrollment

Are you ready for open enrollment? Open enrollment occurs once annually and is the period of time when consumers can make changes to their health insurance benefits.

This webinar will provide information as it relates to open enrollment dates, insurance terms, key questions to ask, ACA plans, Medicare, TRICARE, COVID-19 impacts to insurance, plans and policies to be wary of, financial assistance programs, and more.

Please direct any questions related to this webinar by email to: education@biomatrixsprx.com

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Video: Singing to Heal: Music, The Brain, and Healing

This program offers research on the positive impacts of music on persons with chronic illness.

Data and research from several health-related sources provides evidence of music’s ability to reduce a patient’s experience of pain, promote quicker post-surgery recoveries, and encourage positivity when dealing with a chronic illness. By examining research on music and the brain, this program uncovers music’s effectiveness at encouraging recovery in patients with physical and emotional trauma.

Singing to Heal asks questions about music’s importance in our lives and works towards understanding its positive impact for persons with a chronic illness. If you are not yet a music-lover, this program will encourage you to push PLAY more often; if you are a music lover, this program teases the question as to why you are drawn to music and suggests that, maybe, there’s more to it than just the love of a good song.

Key Objectives:

  1. To educate persons about the positive effects of music

  2. To examine music as an activity that engages multiple areas of the brain when listening to or playing music and to understand why that may be important

  3. To provide research on the positive impacts of music as related to the brain and especially one’s perception of trauma

  4. To provide research on the positive effects of music within cancer and surgery patients

  5. To provide research on the positive impact of music on persons suffering from pain

  6. To examine other positive health impacts of music

Please direct any questions related to this webinar by email to: education@biomatrixsprx.com

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Video: Navigating Open Enrollment

Are you ready for open enrollment? Open enrollment occurs once annually and is the period of time when consumers can make changes to their health insurance benefits.

This webinar will provide information as it relates to open enrollment dates, insurance terms, key questions to ask, ACA plans, Medicare, TRICARE, COVID-19 impacts to insurance, plans and policies to be wary of, financial assistance programs, and more.

Please direct any questions related to this webinar by email to: education@biomatrixsprx.com

Thank you!

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Video: Disability Preparedness: Understanding Short-Term, Long-Term, and Social Security Disability

This program offers information for preparing for living with a temporary or long-term disability. It prepares persons for the unexpected event of a chronic illness or injury, and it offers guidance for those trying to navigate financial support through a disability.

In addition to explaining the similarities and differences between short-term, long-term, and social security disability—Disability Preparedness answers key questions about apply for and receiving disability plans, and it explains how each together provides a safety-net for financial coverage during times of critical illness.

If you have a disability, this program is for you.

If you do not currently have a disability, this program is absolutely for you.

KEY OBJECTIVES:

  1. To educate persons about short-term and long-term disability plans and how a person can acquire that coverage

  2. To answer key questions about applying for and receiving social security disability

  3. To differentiate between short-term, long-term, and social security disability

  4. To indicate how short-term, long-term, and social security disability work together

  5. To assure that persons understand how disability plans can offer them coverage and support during severe and/or chronic illness

Please direct any questions related to this webinar by email to: education@biomatrixsprx.com

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About Shelby Smoak
Advocate & Education Specialist

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Shelby Smoak is a tireless advocate for patients with chronic health conditions. In the 90s, his experience living with a bleeding disorder and HIV led him to become actively involved in advocacy. He’s been saturated in the ever-changing dynamics of healthcare ever since. Shelby helps others understand complicated health policy and serves as a voice for patients with rare conditions across the nation.

He’s been featured on TV and radio, including NPR. Shelby served on the board for the Hemophilia Association of the Capitol Area and currently serves on the Pfizer B2B board. A former literature professor, Shelby is also a writer and a musician. Awarded a Pen/American grant for writers living with HIV, Smoak holds a Ph.D. in Literature and an M.A. in English. His book, “Bleeder: A Memoir” received praise from sources as diverse as The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Library Journal, and Glamour, and has won several awards, including “Best of the Best” by the American Library Association.

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Video: The Road to Recovery: COVID-19 Vaccine Information

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The Road to Recovery provides an understanding of herd immunity, engages vaccine technology, and clarifies the differences among the currently available COVID-19 vaccines.

Participants will discuss expectations for achieving a healthy America and will leave with a firm sense of the specifics for the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. Ultimately, the program offers information for moving from underneath the cloud of COVID-19.

Please direct any questions related to this webinar by email to: education@biomatrixsprx.com

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About Terry Rice
Director of Advocacy and Education

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Terry has been a lifelong advocate within the bleeding disorder community. He’s served on the Board of Directors for local and national bleeding disorder advocacy organizations, and was one of the original founders of the Hemophilia Federation of America (HFA) in 1994.

Throughout the 1990s, Terry spent significant time educating members of Congress in Washington DC regarding legislative initiatives furthering the interests of persons with bleeding disorders. He served a two-year appointment as the community voting member on FDA’s Blood Products Advisory Committee. He has held various management and executive positions within the healthcare industry for 20 years. Terry is a person with a bleeding disorder and his passion is to empower persons with chronic illness. Terry earned his bachelor’s in chemistry and has studied master’s level economics concentrating in health economics.

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