House Bill gets Senate Companion S 3021
AARC has helped to raise awareness on Capitol Hill about the need for a permanent virtual cardiopulmonary telehealth benefit. During our annual Washington, DC Respiratory Fly-in respiratory therapists met with over 200 Congressional offices asking for their support to make this a permanent Medicare benefit. After our Fly-in their was a legislative hearing in the House of Representatives and in November the Senate has introduced what is called a companion piece of legislation. Now is the time to reach out to your Senators to let them know that CMS has no flexibility to permit permanent continuation of virtual cardiac and pulmonary rehab services to Medicare beneficiaries in their homes and that Congress must act to make this happen.
U.S. Senators Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced the Sustainable Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Services in the Home Act (S 3021). This bipartisan legislation needs to gain co-sponsors in the Senate. We need your help to gain co-sponsors for this legislation. Please send this action alert to your Senators to request cosponsors for this important legislation, which will ensure that patients continue to have access to in-home cardiac and pulmonary rehab services.
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