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AACVPR REIMBURSEMENT UPDATE READY-SET-GO! READY As an AACVPR member you have gotten many emailed alerts about our urgent and important advocacy work. The next two weeks will be critical for the Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Act of 2007 (S 329/HR 552). Indications are that this provision will be included in a larger Medicare bill now being drafted by the Senate Finance Committee. Once through the Finance Committee, the new, larger bill that includes many Medicare provisions will then go to the Floor for a vote by all Senate members. Please note that the new Medicare bill will have a different number. S 329 will be incorporated into that larger Medicare bill and AACVPR will be sending you an announcement to request that your congressional members support the new bill. It is imperative that your two US Senators vote to support this bill. SET Soon, AACVPR will be sending you an email which will provide very easy instructions to contact your senator. AACVPR has made it easy for you, your colleagues in the cardiac and pulmonary rehab community and your rehab patients to contact your US Senators and you need to be read. As soon as there is confirmation that the new Medicare bill includes S 329, you will receive an urgent email to contact your Senators and ask for their support of the new bill. GO In the next week or two, AACVPR will be sending you an urgent email which will provide very easy instructions to contact your senator. In that email, you will be able to type in your zip code and a prepared letter will already be there with the appropriate message for you to contact your senator. With one click your message will go directly to your senator’s office. It couldn’t be easier. There is no reason that each and every one of you cannot contact your senator quickly and with the appropriate message. Please pass that email along to your colleagues, patients and others who support cardiac and pulmonary rehab. It is vitally important that as many individual messages as possible are sent to all Senate offices urging passage of this bill. Success has never been closer, but a majority of votes are needed. Remember S 329 does NOT have a majority of co-sponsors. We must have the strongest support for the new Medicare bill that will contain our language. Please watch for the AACVPR email announcement coming soon. Karen Lui, R.N., M.S. |
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