S.578 - Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2015 bill is so close to passing

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise conditions of and limitations on payment for home health care services.

Allows payment for home health services to Medicare beneficiaries by: (1) a nurse practitioner, (2) a clinical nurse specialist working in collaboration with a physician in accordance with state law, (3) a certified nurse-midwife, or (4) a physician assistant under a physician's supervision.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1342

 

Please send an email to Senators Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin

Subject: Ensure Access to Home Health Care for Vulnerable Patients

Please vote in agreement with S. 578, the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act. This bill will ensure that Medicare patients will have timely access to home health services by allowing PAs and NPs to certify such services. Please urge the bill's passage this year! Thank you for your support!

Send email to Barbara Mikulski: https://www.mikulski.senate.gov/contact/

Send email to Ben Cardin: https://www.cardin.senate.gov/contact/

Also remember to sign the petition for full practice authority for the VA APNs. We will send the signatures to Secretary Robert A. McDonald.

Registration for MAAPC's Pearls of Practice Part 4: Emerging trends in Pharmacology on October 1 at AAMC.

Elaine Crain, DNP MAAPC Communications Chair