As requested by a member:

Nurse practitioners (NP), clinical nurse specialists (CNS), certified nurse midwives (CNM) and physicians' assistants (PA) are playing a critical role in the delivery of our nation's health care. Moreover, NPs and PAs in rural or underserved areas are often more familiar with their patients than are physicians.

Despite the expanded role of PAs and NPs, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to prohibit PAs and NPs and other non-physician health professionals from prescribing home health services to Medicare beneficiaries, even though they are already allowed to prescribe the services of a skilled nursing facility.

Your advocacy will make a difference for thousands of Americans!

Thank you for supporting the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2015.

Thank you in advance from taking 2 minutes to do this. We can greatly expand our use of APCs in home health if this bill passes!

The Home Health Planning Improvement Act of 2015 was introduced in the Senate today by Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (S. 578). You can use link below to "take action" and gain support from your Senators for the bill. Please act today, we need to gain co-sponsors for this important legislation.
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Regards,
Richard D. Brennan, Jr., M.A.
Vice President of Government Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives
National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC)
228 7th Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
202-547-7424 (Office)
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rdb@nahc.org