Advocacy Letters 2018

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  • NAACOS submits comments to CMS on its proposed International Pricing Index Model for Medicare Part B Drugs

  • NAACOS joins 200-plus stakeholders in asking Congress to align substance treatment privacy with HIPAA

  • NAACOS submits comments on ways to improve anti-kickback statute waivers for ACOs

  • Final NAACOS comments on the Proposed Pathways to Success Rule

  • Nine stakeholder groups urge CMS to ensure continued success of ACO program

  • Part 2 Partnership asks Congress to address privacy protections in final opioids bill

  • NAACOS supports FCC pilot to expand telehealth to low-income consumers and joins other groups in asking for changes

  • NAACOS submits comments on CMS proposals for 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program
    • Separately, NAACOS joined other health groups supporting wider reimbursement of telehealth and remote monitoring
  • NAACOS submits comments on ways to improve Stark Law waivers for ACOs

  • NAACOS responds to the Health Care Innovation Caucus’s request for information"

  • NAACOS submits comments in response to CMS’s Request for Information on Establishing a Healthcare Sector Innovation and Investment Workgroup

  • NAACOS supports coalition efforts to require sharing of Admissions, Transfer and Discharge information as a Condition of Participation in Medicare

  • NAACOS submits letter to CMS urging sharing of ADT information as a condition of participation in Medicare

  • NAACOS sends a letter to CMS urging the agency to release information as soon as possible on the 2019 MSSP application

  • NAACOS and others send a letter urging CMS to swiftly implement program to recognize and give credit for MA Advanced APM

  • NAACOS submits comments in response to CMS’s Request for Information on Direct Provider Contracting models

  • NAACOS supports use of telehealth in opioid addiction treatment
     
  • NAACOS Continues to Support H.R. 3545 to Combat Opioid Addiction

  • NAACOS sends letter to House Ways and Means Committee on Opioid Crisis

  • NAACOS comments on NQF population health measures draft report

  • NAACOS submits comments to Ways & Means on MACRA Implementation

  • NAACOS sends letter to House Ways and Means Committee on Opioid Crisis

  • NAACOS and five other provider organizations send a letter to CMS requesting that ACOs meeting cost or quality criteria be able to remain in Track 1

  • NAACOS comments on Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances policy for ACOs

  • NAACOS letter to CMS identifies PY2016 MSSP calculation error affecting ACOs with previous savings and rebased benchmarks in 2016

    • CMS Response about PY2016 Calculations

  • NAACOS submits comments in response to HHS RFI on competition in the healthcare marketplace