|
|
|
Find Your Elected Officials
|
|
To view information on your representatives, enter your zip code.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Our Issues
|
|
|
Click on Write Your Legislators below to prepare Letters and E-mails to your Legislators. You will input your name and address, preview and personalize the message, and the rest will be done for you.
|
| |
|
Federal/National Issues
|
STOP HOME HEALTH CUTS
|
Ensure that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) preserves adequate and appropriate payment for Medicare home health services. Send a message asking that your representatives and senators co-sponsor the Home Health Care Access Protection Act of 2010. (S.3315; H.R. 5803)
|
|
STOP HOSPICE CUTS
|
Ensure Adequate and Appropriate Payment for Medicare Hospice Services. Send a Message Asking that Your Representative and Senators Support a Full Hospice Inflation Update and Preservation of the Budget Neutrality Adjustment Factor in the Hospice Wage Index.
|
|
INCREASE RURAL ADD-ON
|
Ask your Senators to cosponsor S.1123, the Medicare Rural Home Health Preservation Act, which would restore the 5 percent rural add-on for five years.
|
|
PROMOTE TELEHOMECARE/REMOTE MONITORING
|
Ask your Representatives to sign on to a letter from Tim Walz (D-1st-MN) and Ginny Brown-Waite (R-5th-FL) to implore the administrator of CMS to test a home care based remote monitoring pilot program at the new CMS Center for Innovation.
|
|
ALLOW NP/PAs TO ORDER HOME HEALTH SERVICES
|
Ask your Senators and Representative to co-sponsor the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act (S. 2814; H.R. 4993), which would allow Nurse Practitioners, Advanced Practice Nurses, and Physician Assistants to sign Medicare home health care plans.
|
|
DELAY PHYSICIAN ENROLLMENT REQUIREMENT AND HOLD HOME HEALTH AGENCIES HARMLESS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
