Judith Stein, founder and executive director of the Center for Medicare Advocacy in Windham’s Willimantic section, has been empaneled on the Bipartisan Long-Term Care Commission, authorities say.
The commission’s role is to devise a plan to establish, implement, and finance a comprehensive set of long-term care services for seniors and people with disabilities.
Members of Connecticut’s congressional House delegation — Joe Courtney, Rosa DeLauro, John Larson, Jim Himes and Elizabeth Esty — says they wrote to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi urging her to appoint Stein to the commission.
Stein has an advocate of the elderly since beginning her legal career in 1975, authorities say.
She was co-director of Legal Assistance to Medicare Patients, where she managed the first Medicare advocacy program in the country.
She has been lead or co-counsel in numerous federal class action and individual cases challenging improper Medicare policies and denials.
