In 1990, the nationwide State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) was launched to give a helping hand to people with Medicare. The Mississippi SHIP is funded through a federal grant from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and administered through the Division of Aging. SHIP is an unbiased source for information about Medicare and related insurances, fraud, abuse and consumer assistance.
Our SHIP coordinator can:
We also offer information regarding the Mississippi Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) which is designed to help seniors identify Medicare fraud and abuse and to help report suspicious Medicare claims.
The goals of the SMP are to:
For more information regarding our Insurance Counseling Services, please contact Sharon Duke at 662-324-3309.