Center for Health Care Rights

The Center for Health Care Rights (CHCR) is a California-based, nonprofit organization dedicated to assuring consumer access to quality health care through information, education, counseling, advocacy and research programs. The Center informs its efforts to represent consumers in public and private policy forums by the direct service it provides to individual consumers. Founded in 1984 as the Medicare Advocacy Project, the Center currently provides individual and systemic advocacy for elderly and disabled Medicare beneficiaries - serving over one million Medicare beneficiaries in Los Angeles County. The Center also has a long history of promoting protections for all consumers, particularly those enrolled in health maintenance organizations and other managed care plans.