People for Quality Care Calls for Advocacy

July 4, 2016
WATERLOO, IA – Advocacy group People for Quality Care is calling on HME providers to engage their patients in immediate advocacy. The organization joins the VGM Group, American Association for Homecare, and state associations in a grassroots ef

Rural Relief Legislation Still Possible

July 4, 2016
WASHINGTON, DC – The second phase of bidding-derived cuts for rural and non-bid area suppliers are in effect. With the House currently out of session, there has been no chance of action until now. Nonetheless, AAHomecare officials are still eng

Last Minute Loss of Legislation Means Trying Times Ahead

June 27, 2016
BIRMINGHAM, AL – The last minute loss of legislation needed to prevent the scheduled Medicare rate cuts, not because of opposition, but by circumstances over which we had no control, may very well mean the death of our industry as we know it—

New Cuts Hit Rural Areas

June 27, 2016
WASHINGTON, DC – Shortly after the Senate passed legislation (S. 2736) via unanimous consent to delay a new round of cuts to rural and non-bid area suppliers, similar legislation on the House side stalled due to an unrelated “sit-in” that groun

Rural Relief Legislation Moving in Senate Under Hotline Process

June 20, 2016
WASHINGTON, DC – Events were still in flux last week at press time, with AAHomecare receiving confirmation that competitive bidding rural relief legislation was starting to move through the hotline process in the Senate. The bill is first being cle

AAHomecare Urges Final Push Before House Recess

June 13, 2016
WASHINGTON, DC – AAHomecare officials report that a post-Legislative Conference Surge has pushed the total of H.R. 5210 cosponsors to 90. With Congress now back in session after their Memorial Day recess, the official co-sponsor list for H.R. 5