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Summary of Healthcare Reform Statute
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Mar 29th, 2010
The healthcare reform statute contains many provisions that directly and indirectly affect nonprofit home health and hospice. VNAA has put together summaries of the healthcare reform provisions to give you a better understanding about what healthcare reform means for your agency.
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Medicaid Access Commission (MACPAC) Has Members but No Funding Yet
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Mar 22nd, 2010
The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act of 2009 established the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) to review Medicaid and CHIP access and payment policies and to advise Congress.
Seventeen individuals have recently been appointed to MACPAC and...
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Congress Passes Healthcare Reform
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Mar 22nd, 2010
Despite acrimony inside and outside the U.S. Capitol, Democratic members of the House of Representatives passed a historic healthcare bill with a 219 to 212 majority and no Republican support. The House passed both the Senate’s "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (H.R. 3590), which was...
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Analysis of FY 2011 Budget Proposal
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Feb 15th, 2010
ACTION: VNAA members are asked to continue to actively lobby their Members of Congress – as the budget does assume deep cuts for home health and hospice.
OVERVIEW:
A $3.8 trillion budget was released by President Obama on February 1 that contains no new Medicare cuts for home health and...
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Home Health and Hospice Payment Addressed at MedPAC Public Meeting
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Nov 16th, 2009
VNAA continued building its MedPAC advocacy strategy last week by participating in the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) public meeting on November 5-6. As a follow up to the meeting, VNAA filed formal comments to MedPAC on the meeting sessions related to home health and hospice. To...
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House Passes Health Reform Bill (H.R. 3962): VNAA Expresses Concern
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Nov 9th, 2009
The House passed its healthcare reform bill (H.R. 3962) by 220 to 215 with one Republican voting in favor of it and 39 Democrats voting against it. Many of the Democrats who voted against the bill are either members of the Blue Dog Caucus or freshmen Democrats with vulnerable seats.
Though VNAA...
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