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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.
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Pennsylvania Homecare Association
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Pennsylvanians Oppose Home Health Co-Pays
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PHA urges all home health care advocates to join in sending the message for Congress to “Oppose Home Health Co-Pays.”
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Federal/National Issues
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NAHC Statement on Senate Finance Committee Report - 10/3/11
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OPPOSE MEDICARE HOME HEALTH COPAYS AND PAYMENT CUTS
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NAHC urges all home care advocates to join in sending the message for Congress to “Oppose Medicare home health copays and payment cuts.”
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PRESERVE ACCESS TO HOME HEALTH CARE
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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.
2) Urge that face to face physician encounter requirement for home health services be rescinded and reformed.
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EXPAND THE HOME HEALTH CAUCUS
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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.
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HOSPICE: PROTECT THE MEDICARE HOSPICE BENEFIT
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NAHC urges hospice advocates to tell Congress to “Protect the Medicare Hospice Benefit.”
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HOSPICE: MESSAGE TO U.S. SENATORS
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Support S. 722 to Refine Hospice Face-to-Face, Require Demonstration of Hospice Payment Reform, and Increase Hospice Survey Frequency
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PROMOTE TELEHOMECARE/REMOTE MONITORING
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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.
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ALLOW NP/PAs TO ORDER HOME HEALTH SERVICES
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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.
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OPPOSE PROPOSALS TO CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR MEDICAID.
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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.
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PRESERVE THE COMPANIONSHIP SERVICES EXEMPTION
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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
2) Urge Members of Congress to reject proposals that would eliminate the companionship services exemption.
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