Sue Andersen, Principal of Health Benefits ABCs, is an attorney with extensive experience with Medicare and Medicaid payment policy and beneficiary eligibility.

 

As a former associate law professor, Sue created the Health Law Clinic at George Washington University Law School and was Director of the Health Insurance Counseling Project, the state health insurance counseling project (SHIP) in the District of Columbia. Sue also served as the director of the national SHIP Resource Center at Johnson, Bassin and Shaw, Inc.

 

Sue has provided consulting services to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and collaborated with a number of prominent Washington corporations in other CMS projects. Sue provides exceptional expertise in training and education to financial planners, social service organizations and others who need to understand health benefits for in their work with individuals who are approaching retirement, disabled or have long term care needs. She has served as a consultant in nursing home bankruptcy litigation, has consulted with individuals and nonprofits regarding home and community-based long term care services and has worked with prominent private health insurers in employment-based health insurance programs.

 

Sue accepts speaking engagements to provide training on health insurance issues and consult with groups and individuals on questions regarding private health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid programs.