Advocating for and counseling New York State seniors, focusing on: protecting Social Security and ensuring adequate income for seniors providing Medicare and Medicaid information maintaining access to affordable prescription drugs information about patients' rights, regardless of age, related to: being denied hospital admission to a hospital or premature discharge; situations where discharge planning or necessary post-hospital care is unavailable, inadequate or unaffordable Assists with medical billing and medical debt issues meeting long-term care needs expanding community services for seniors and people with disabilities, including affordable housing and transportation strengthening consumer protections For more information on chapter meetings, please call us at 800-333-4374 Counseling: call the Patient Rights/Affordable Medicines Helpline for one-on-one counseling on Medicare questions.Serves as the Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) for NYS and handles Medicare fraud issues for NYS.