Comment Letters & Congressional Correspondence

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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.

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)