Home Health Care Access Protection Act of 2010

Home Health and Hospice provisions in "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (H.R. 3590) and "Affordable Health Care for America Act" (H.R. 3962) and "Home Health Care Access Protection Act" (S. 3315/H.R. 5803)

Client expense: $363,414 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Office of the Vice President of the United States, SENATE, White House Office

Home health care access protection act, S. 3315 Home health care access protection act, H.R. 5803 Appropriations for St. Anthony Hospital, Oklahoma City; St. Marys Hospital, Janesville, WI; St. Clare Hospital, Baraboo, WI Electronic health record incentives for multi-campus hospitals act of 2010, S. 3708 Electronic health record incentives for multi-campus hospitals act of 2010, H.R. 6072 Opposed recommendations of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform not to fund the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program.

Client expense: $62,558 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

HR 5803-Home Health Care Access Protection Act-seeks to ensure that evaluation of case mix changes in the home health Prospective Payment System be made using standards developed consistent with specified processes and establish a technical group. Requesting delay on implementation of the case-mix adjustment measure. Supported Medicare PECOS Denial Delay. Supported efforts to repeal or delay Medicare PPS Final Rule Face to Face Requirement.

Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Supported legislation to ensure that multiple hospitals with common provider numbers received separate electronic health record reimbursements (S. 3708 and H.R. 6072) and that the home health agencies are not arbitrarily reduced in their reimbursements (S.3315 and H.R. 5803).

Client expense: $67,500 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Health reform including Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, HIT, and transitional, coordinated care, tax and health insurers. H.R. 3590, H.R. 3680, H.R. 4872, S. 1728, S. 3315, H.R. 5803; scope of practice S. 2814, H.R. 4993.

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $60,000

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

HR 1586-FAA Air Transportation Modernization Act--support enhanced State Medicaid FMAP for 6-months; HR 4993-Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act-support efforts to allow nurse practitioners and physican assistants to order Medicare home health services; HR 5803-Home Health Care Access Protection Act--support modifications in the process to establish case-mix changes to the Medicare home health prospective payment system.

Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Home Health and Hospice provisions in "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (H.R. 3590) and "Affordable Health Care for America Act" (H.R. 3962) and Home Health Care Access Protection Act" (S. 3315/H.R.5803).

Client expense: $340,555 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Office of the Vice President of the United States, SENATE, White House Office