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MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC

EIN 13-3505372 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$5,279,102
Expenses 2024
$5,253,324

Program services were 87.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E050
Classification
1000
Street
266 WEST 37TH ST 3RD FL

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Medicare Rights Center is a national, nonprofit consumer service organization that works to ensure access to affordable health care for older adults and people with disabilities through counseling and advocacy, educational programs, and public policy initiatives. Since 1989, weve been helping people with Medicare understand their rights and benefits, navigate the Medicare system, and secure the quality health care they deserve. We strive to be the most reliable source of independent, unbiased Medicare information in the United States.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Medicare Rights Center is a national, nonprofit consumer service organization that works to ensure access to affordable health care for older adults and people with disabilities through counseling and advocacy, educational programs, and public policy initiatives.

  • HELPLINES: Medicare Rights' expert staff and volunteers answered more than 29,700 questions on its multilingual national helpline for people with Medicare, their families, and the professionals serving them. As part of this work, Medicare Rights provided over 9,903 counseling sessions devoted to appeals and other Medicare-related legal issues.

    Expenses $2,091,379 · Revenue $793,000

  • EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH: Medicare Rights' expert print and online resources and trainings, provided through Medicare Interactive (www.medicareinteractive.org), answered 2.1 million Medicare questions and empowered professionals across the country to better serve their own older clients and those with disabilities. As part of this work, Medicare Rights offers its training and certification services to Medicare counselors nationally through the State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) Technical Assistance Center and the Senior Medicare Patrol Resource Center.

    Expenses $1,403,086 · Revenue $822,594

  • Policy: Medicare Rights carried the stories of the clients it serves to meetings of policymakers and other stakeholders in New York and Washington, DC., and media placements totaled 1,596. Medicare Rights also led 249 presentations and trainings to translate Medicare policy into consumer-friendly language and circulated Medicare newsletters and other communications to a list of more than 124,574 readers.

    Expenses $566,540

  • ENROLLMENT SERVICES: Medicare Rights submitted more than 2,186 Medicare cost-saving benefit applications for its clients, saving enrolled individuals $11.5 million in out-of-pocket health care costs and increasing their access to needed care and medicines.

    Expenses $544,226 · Revenue $694,649

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Frederic Riccardi

    President

    Total calculated
    $268,362
    From this org
    $233,879
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,483
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $233,879
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $9,232
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,251
    Filer's total
    $268,362
  • Lindsey Copeland

    FED POLICY DIR

    Total calculated
    $230,837
    From this org
    $155,415
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $75,422
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,415
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $638
    Nontaxable benefits
    $74,784
    Filer's total
    $230,837
  • Rachel Bennett

    VP OF PROGRAM DEV

    Total calculated
    $210,057
    From this org
    $172,886
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,171
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $172,886
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $15,044
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,127
    Filer's total
    $210,057
  • Marcin Bednarz

    DIRECTOR OF IT

    Total calculated
    $204,104
    From this org
    $164,997
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,107
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $164,997
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $3,531
    Nontaxable benefits
    $35,576
    Filer's total
    $204,104
  • Mitchell Clark

    Director of Comm

    Total calculated
    $159,076
    From this org
    $118,454
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $40,622
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $118,454
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $6,697
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,925
    Filer's total
    $159,076
  • Sarah A Murdoch

    Client Serv Dir

    Total calculated
    $138,486
    From this org
    $104,770
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,716
    Hours/week
    37.5
  • Ann Adenbaum

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Leroy Barr

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kathy Chin

    CO-CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • David Matyas JD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Van Dunn

    board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cybele Bjorklund

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Sandra Kresh

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Peter Hutchings

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nedal Shami

    board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Alan Lubin

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Marilyn Moon PhD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carol Raphael

    CO-CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Herman Rosen MD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bruce Vladeck PhD

    Chair Emeritus

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Donna Regenstreif PhD

    Chair Emerita

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Curtis L Cole MD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Edith Everett

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Renu Thomas

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tina Georgeou

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,279,102
    Expenses
    $5,253,324
    Contributions
    $3,357,982
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,845,552
    Expenses
    $4,653,405
    Contributions
    $3,105,891
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,289,491
    Expenses
    $4,095,816
    Contributions
    $3,377,019
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,027,841
    Expenses
    $3,603,361
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,675,870
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,014,929
    Expenses
    $3,753,948
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,326,326
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,121,429
    Expenses
    $3,566,968
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,173,312
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,026,857
    Expenses
    $3,696,132
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,236,178
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,519,300
    Expenses
    $3,696,496
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,844,613
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,519,300
    Expenses
    $3,696,496
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,844,613
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,977,626
    Expenses
    $3,721,313
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,958,049
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,475,554
    Expenses
    $3,739,531
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,748,178
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,867,104
    Expenses
    $3,124,035
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,858,828
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,773,977
    Expenses
    $2,732,206
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,110,996

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.