Comment Letters and Congressional Correspondence

NPHI provides formal comments, responses, and recommendations to regulators, policy makers, and other healthcare stakeholders regarding newly proposed regulations, care delivery models, and other innovations impacting not-for-profit advanced illness providers. 

SILO Act Letter of Endorsement (February 2024)

Hospice Coalition Hospice coalition letter to Congress - Impact Act (January 2024)

  Comment Letter on the Calendar Year 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Proposed Rule (September 8, 2023)

  Comment Letter on the Calendar Year 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update (August 29, 2023)

  Hospice Organizations Letter to CMS Regarding Reforms to Hospice Audit Practices (August 11, 2023)

  Comment Letter on the Proposed FY2024 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update, Hospice Conditions of Participation Updates, Hospice Quality Reporting Program Requirements, and Hospice Certifying Physician Provider Enrollment Requirements (May 30, 2023)

  Medicare Overpayment Proposed Rule Comment Letter (February 13, 2023)

  National Hospice Stakeholders Letter to Congress to Avert Medicare Payment Cut (December 1, 2022)

  National Hospice Stakeholders Letter to CMS regarding Certification Activity (November 9, 2022)

  Medicare Sequestration Letter to Congress (July 23, 2022)

  FY23 Sign-On Letter on Hospice Rate Increase (July 12, 2022)

  Standard Mileage Reimbursement Letter (July 7, 2022)

  FY23 Hospice Payment Rate Update Proposed Rule Comment Letter (May 31, 2022)

  Hospice Association F2F Telehealth Extension Letter (March 3, 2022)

  CY22 Home Health Proposed Rule Comment Letter (August 27, 2021)

  FY22 Hospice Wage Index Proposed Rule Comment Letter (June 7, 2021)

  Vaccine Distribution Op-Ed: "If We're Fighting a War, Who's the General? Because We're Losing" (January 12, 2021)

  Open Letter to US Governors: Prioritizing Community-Based, Not-for-Profit Hospices in COVID-19 Vaccine Distributions (December 10, 2020)

  COVID-19 Interim Final Rule Comment Letter (April 3, 2020)

  COVID-19 Hospice Stakeholder Letter (April 3, 2020)

  NPHI statement on House Final passage of CARES Act (March 27, 2020)

  National Hospice Organizations Legislative Requests (March 17, 2020)

  NPHI letter to HHS and CMS on COVID-19 (March 17, 2020)

  VBID Hospice Carve-In RFA Summary

  New Report on Hospice Care Shows Cost and Quality Differences between Nonprofit and Not-for-Profit Hospices (November 25, 2019)

  NPRM 1557 Regulation Comment Letter (August 13, 2019)

  FY20 Hospice Payment Rate Update Comment Letter (June 18, 2019)