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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
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