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Home Care Association of Florida
MAINTAIN THE COMPANIONSHIP SERVICES EXEMPTION
Ask Florida's congressional delegation to protect access to home care by cosponsoring the Companionship Exemption Protection Act (H.R. 3066). If enacted, the bill would preserve the companionship services exemption for minimum wage and overtime pay for home care agencies and nurse registries.
Congressman Cliff Stearns became the first member of Florida's congressional delegation to cosponsor the Companionship Services Protection Act (H.R. 3066). If enacted, this bill would preserve the companionship services exemption for minimum wage and overtime pay for home care agencies and nurse registries. Send a note to Congressman Stearns thanking him for standing up for home care!
SUPPORT THE HOME HEALTH CARE PLANNING IMPROVEMENT ACT
The Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act (S. 227, H.R. 2267) would allow nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse midwives and physician assistants to sign Medicare home health plans of care.
According to a study by Dobson DaVanzo & Associates, this legislation could save the Medicare program $273.1 million by 2020, and would expand access to home health care in rural areas.
Two bills introduced in Congress – the Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act (H.R. 3859) in the House of Representatives and the Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act (S. 1680) in the Senate – seek to protect and preserve access for Medicare beneficiaries in rural areas to health care providers under the Medicare program.
Both the House and Senate bills would increase the home health rural add on payment from 3 percent to 5 percent for calendar year 2012, and would allow nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse midwives, and physicians' assistants to certify home health plans of care in both rural and urban areas.
SUPPORT THE FOSTERING INDEPENDENCE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY ACT
The Fostering Independence Through Technology (FITT) Act (S. 501) seeks to expand the use of telehealth and remote monitoring in Medicare by creating a pilot program that would provide incentives for home health agencies to use home monitoring and communications technologies.
SUPPORT THE HOME HEALTH CARE ACCESS PROTECTION ACT
Ensure that CMS preserves adequate and appropriate payment for Medicare home health services and does not impose unreasonable regulatory burdens that would restrict access to care.
Ensure that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) preserves adequate and appropriate payment for Medicare home health services and does not impose unreasonable regulatory burdens that would restrict access to care.
1) Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Home Health Care Access Protection Act.
Congressmen Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Walter Jones (R-NC) are again asking their colleagues in the House of Representatives to join the Congressional Home Health Caucus. NAHC urges all home care advocates to reach out to their representatives and remind them to join the caucus today.
Contact your Senators and encourage them to co-sponsor S. 501, the Fostering Independence Through Technology (FITT) Act of 2011 which would expand the use of telehealth under Medicare by offering incentives to home health agencies who demonstrate the use of remote monitoring and communication technologies that serve rural and underserved urban communities.
Ask your Senators and Representative to co-sponsor the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act, which would allow Nurse Practitioners, Advanced Practice Nurses, and Physician Assistants to sign Medicare home health care plans.
OPPOSE PROPOSALS TO CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR MEDICAID.
NAHC urges home care and hospice advocates to ask their Members of Congress to protect access to home care and hospice for low income Medicaid beneficiaries by opposing proposals that would reduce federal Medicaid funding.
NAHC urges home care advocates to ask Congress to protect access to home care by supporting proposals that would preserve the companionship services exemption.
1) Urge your representative to cosponsor H.R.3066, the Companionship Exemption Protection Act
