{"id":343,"date":"2025-05-22T12:10:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/?p=343"},"modified":"2025-05-29T15:39:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T19:39:36","slug":"smith-shawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/2025\/05\/22\/smith-shawn\/","title":{"rendered":"June 11, 2025 Chapter Meeting &#8211; Reading a Medicare Statement can be Confusing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-345 alignleft img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2025\/05\/smith-magazine-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Copy of a SeniorAdvocate Magazine cover with Shawn Smith featured as an editorial commentor\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2025\/05\/smith-magazine-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2025\/05\/smith-magazine-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2025\/05\/smith-magazine-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2025\/05\/smith-magazine-300x375.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2025\/05\/smith-magazine.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Smith serves as the state director for a Medicare senior advocacy program dedicated to preventing healthcare fraud.\u00a0 This program is designed to help you read and understand your Medicare statement, let\u2019s call it a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/meetings-events\/meetings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good Medicare statement literacy program<\/a>\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2025 Speaker Shawn Smith, representing the Medicare Senior Advocacy Program, will help us begin to learn how to read through the Medicare invoices that often puzzle many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meetings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2025\/05\/smith-shawn.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter2265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}