American Hospital Association
NAHC, Big Health Care Orgs Urge Congress to Extend Relief from 2% Sequester Spending Cuts
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), as well as the American Hospital Association, the American Health Care Association, and the American Medical Association have written to top congressional leaders, urging them to extend the congressionally enacted moratorium on the application of the Medicare sequester cuts into 2021 and through the duration of […]
Read MoreUpdate on Efforts to Curb Opioid Abuse and Impact on Hospice, Palliative Care
The increasing recognition that abuse of opioids and other controlled substances is growing at epic proportions has prompted policymakers at the state and – more recently — federal levels to explore a wide variety of options for addressing this crisis. The Trump Administration and multiple Congressional committees have ongoing initiatives in this important subject area. […]
Read MoreCongress Eyes “Early Discharge” to Hospice Policy as Part of Extenders Package
On a routine basis, Congress must act on legislation to address expiring Medicare provisions or risk expiration of those policies; among these “extender” provisions is the home health rural add-on, which is currently set to sunset at the end of December. While the broad outlines of an extenders package that includes a five-year extension of […]
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