Navigating Insurance: BRIDGE to Care

What is BRIDGE?

Community Resource Initiative’s BRIDGE Team (Benefits Resources Infectious Disease Guidance and Engagement) provides health insurance and benefits program enrollment, guidance, outreach, and training to individuals and organizations throughout Massachusetts. We develop trainings and provide individualized assistance for case managers, community resource specialists, and health care consumers and providers.

BRIDGE can help:

• Guide clients living with HIV through health insurance plan selection, particularly during open enrollment.
• Assist clients with accessing health insurance, especially if a client’s insurance terminates or if a client is in a transitional period, such as a loss or change in job and/or income or becoming Medicare eligible.
• Provide support and advocacy when clients face barriers to getting the drugs and medical care that they need.
• Outreach to clients who are about to be or have been disenrolled from our programs.
• Train case managers and providers to help clients access and maintain coverage in an ever-changing health insurance environment, including navigation of public and private insurers and complex dual coverage.

How to get BRIDGE Team Support

Our BRIDGE Team helps clients understand the complicated insurance landscape and choose the best option for their unique circumstances.  The BRIDGE Team is skilled at addressing barriers to coverage and can help clients access all the services offered by Community Resource Initiative.