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AAHD has joined the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Task Forces on Health and LTSS submitting recommendations to the Congress on recovery legislative provisions. The June 10 letter is here: PDF. [...]Read More...
Strengthening the LTSS & HCBS Direct Care Workforce: Scaling Up and Sustaining Strategies That Work June 3 Mathematica for CMS webinar materials Learn more here. HHS Launches Hot Line To Improve Access To COVID-19 Vaccines for Persons with Disabilities June 8 ACL announced, ACL and CDC NCBDDD Disability Information and Access Line (DIAL) Learn more [...]Read More...
Available is the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) response to the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) on vaccination efforts and persons with disabilities. Available here are the May 28 OCR and April 8 CCD letters. [...]Read More...
AAHD has joined the Coalition To Preserve Rehabilitation (CPR) sharing field experiences that therapy in SNFs has declined and asking CMS for better collection and publication of utilization and outcome data. The June 7 CPR letter is here: PDF. [...]Read More...
AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation have endorsed Council on Quality and Leadership (CQL) comments submitted to the National Quality Forum (NQF) on their draft PRO-PMs report for public comment. We also encouraged NQF to more effectively utilize their previous reports on person-centeredness and home-and-community-based services (HCBS). Deadline for submission to NQF is June 21. Available [...]Read More...
AAHD has joined the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) recommending to Congress legislative improvements to the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. The May 20 CCD letter is here: PDF. [...]Read More...
AAHD has joined the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) and Disability and Aging Collaborative (DAC) requesting Congress to include the Medicaid home-and-community-based services (HCBS) enhancements in the Administration jobs/infrastructure legislation. The May 27 letter is here: PDF. [...]Read More...
AAHD has joined fellow Disability and Rehabilitation Research Coalition (DRRC) members requesting annual funding for NIDILRR, ICD, and some CDC programs. The May 26 letters of request to the House and Senate are here: House letter; Senate letter. [...]Read More...
AAHD has joined 31 organizations endorsing Rep Lauren Underwood (IL) legislation which would require private insurance plans to cover 3 annual primary care and 3 annual behavioral health visits without co-pay. Rep Underwood’s May 26 press release summarizing the legislation (HR 3550) and listing the endorsing organizations is available here: PDF. [...]Read More...
AAHD has joined a 68 organization coalition, led by AARP, endorsing legislation to establish a federal income tax credit for caregivers (HR 3321; S. 1670). Available here are the coalition endorsement letter, an AARP fact sheet; and an AARP infographic. [...]Read More...
Nineteen (19) members of the U.S. House have written HHS advocating that there be a behavioral health worker set-aside in the American Rescue Plan Act public health workforce funding. Several BH national organizations have advocated this. Public Health association response is not known by AAHD. The May 21 19 House members letter is here: PDF. [...]Read More...