User login
Legislative Call Agenda, Thursday April 16th 3:00 PM EST
Legislative Committee Conference Call
3:00 pm EST, Thursday, April 16th
Call in number is 712-432-3900
Passcode is 471334
Moderator code is 406354.
Please press *6 on your phone to mute and *7 to unmute.
(Moderators/Speakers use #0 to mute all participant lines and #1 to unmute.)
(Moderators/Speakers use #0 to mute all participant lines and #1 to unmute.)
To get previous issues of our Legislative agenda, please follow this link to our website.
Note: Congress is in recess from April 4th-April 19th. They will be back in session on Monday, April 20th.
Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health Hearing, April 2nd
The Subcommittee on Health held a hearing titled, “Making Health Care Work for American Families: Saving Money, Saving Lives” on Thursday, April 2, 2009, in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. Members of the subcommittee spoke on ideas of how to acheive greater savings and higher quality in the U.S. health care system. To view more information, including video of the hearings, please click here. This was the fourth in a series of hearing on "Making Health Care Work for American Families". To view all the hearings from the Subcommittee on Health, please click here.
The Subcommittee on Health held a hearing titled, “Making Health Care Work for American Families: Saving Money, Saving Lives” on Thursday, April 2, 2009, in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. Members of the subcommittee spoke on ideas of how to acheive greater savings and higher quality in the U.S. health care system. To view more information, including video of the hearings, please click here. This was the fourth in a series of hearing on "Making Health Care Work for American Families". To view all the hearings from the Subcommittee on Health, please click here.
I. Medical Home Letter to CMS and OMB
The Collaborative will send out a sign on letter to its membership, expressing their concern regarding information that the Office of Management and Budget is considering restricting participation in the Medicare Medical Home demonstration project to only those practices that obtain the highest level of recognition (Tier II) on the Physicians Practice Connections Patient-Centered Medical Home (PPC-PCMH Medicare version) instrument developed by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). We will ask for responses to come back by COB Tuesday, April 21st. Please find the letter attached, at the bottom of the agenda.
II. PCPCC Sign On Letter - Current Policy Reserve Fund for Physician Payment Reform
Attached is a letter advocating that the final joint budget resolution adopted by the House and Senate include a current policy reserve fund for physician payment reform, as included in the House version of the budget resolution. Organizations have until noon Thursday, April 16th to sign on. Attached, please find the letter, along with the organizations that have signed on.
III. Senate Finance Committee Hearing, April 21st, 10:00 AM EDT
On April 21st, at 10:00 AM EDT, the Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing roundtable to discuss "Reforming America’s Health Care Delivery System". The hearing will be held in 216 Hart Senate Office Building. For more information on the hearing, please click here.
On April 21st, at 10:00 AM EDT, the Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing roundtable to discuss "Reforming America’s Health Care Delivery System". The hearing will be held in 216 Hart Senate Office Building. For more information on the hearing, please click here.
-
Future Hearings
- Reforming America's Health Care Delivery System
Date Tuesday, April 21, 10 a.m.
Place 215 Dirksen Bldg. - Increasing Access to Health Care Coverage
Date Tuesday, May 5, Time TBA
Place 215 Dirksen Bldg. - Financing Comprehensive Health Care Reform
Date Thursday, May 14, Time TBA
Place 215 Dirksen Bldg.
- Reforming America's Health Care Delivery System
IV. PCPCC Recommendations to Encourage Consumer Involvement in the PCMH Movement
We were asked by Congressional staff to recommend ways to encourage consumer involvement in the PCMH national movement. Attached, please find nine Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) consumer principles developed by a broad coalition of more than 25 of the nation's leading consumer, labor and health care advocacy groups, lead by the National Partnership for Women and Families. The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) surveyed its membership for ideas on ways to operationalize the PCMH concept for the consumer. The principles and operational suggestions are attached.
V. Center to Promote Public Payer Implementation Call - April 7th, 3:00 PM EST
On April 7th, at 3:00 PM EST, the Center to Promote Public Payer Implementation (CPPI) Federal Programs Group held its monthly call. The Center was pleased to have Chris Dawe, from the Senate Finance Committee speak on its call. Chris briefed the Center on the Senate's plan to unviel its health reform proposal the last week in April. The second half of the call consisted of a consumer materials briefing for CMS staff. For a link to the agenda, please click here.
VI. The White House Forum on Health Reform
On March 5th, President Obama brought together leaders with diverse views at the White House Forum on Health Reform. The White House issued a report highlighting the productive discussions from the event. Primary care health reform was mentioned in a number of places in the report, including by Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who called for focusing on the workforce issue shortages among primary care physicians. For a link to the full report, please click here. To read a blog post by the Director of the White House Office of Health Reform Nancy-Ann DeParle, please click here.
VII. Sebelius Confirmation Delayed by GOP Objection
Senate confirmation of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to head the Department of Health and Human Services has been delayed until after the current two-week recess, due to the nomination objection of one senator. Sebelius' nomination will allow her to play a central role in President Obama's effort to overhaul the health care system. For more information, please click here.
On March 5th, President Obama brought together leaders with diverse views at the White House Forum on Health Reform. The White House issued a report highlighting the productive discussions from the event. Primary care health reform was mentioned in a number of places in the report, including by Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who called for focusing on the workforce issue shortages among primary care physicians. For a link to the full report, please click here. To read a blog post by the Director of the White House Office of Health Reform Nancy-Ann DeParle, please click here.
VII. Sebelius Confirmation Delayed by GOP Objection
Senate confirmation of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to head the Department of Health and Human Services has been delayed until after the current two-week recess, due to the nomination objection of one senator. Sebelius' nomination will allow her to play a central role in President Obama's effort to overhaul the health care system. For more information, please click here.
VIII. Senate HELP Committee Request
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) has requested ideas to implement and expand the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) in the following areas: (1) Workforce Supply Issue, (2) Consumer Barriers (financial and others), and (3) Data Collection.
IX. Discussion on Future Strategy for Legislative and Regulatory Efforts
Discuss the strategy to pursue a preference for the 19+ billion of health IT money for primary care doctors transforming their practice into PCMH. Numerous congressional staffers recommended that we discuss this issue with policy officials at HHS, once the stimulus bill was signed.
Strategy needed for next fiscal year appropriation process, i.e. meetings with appropriations committee staff.
Discuss opportunities at Medicaid level, with the additional funding from stimulus package on transformation of PCMH.
Strategy needed for next fiscal year appropriation process, i.e. meetings with appropriations committee staff.
Discuss opportunities at Medicaid level, with the additional funding from stimulus package on transformation of PCMH.
X. Legislative Goals to Promote Primary Care
- Broaden the Medicare Medical Home Demo so that it is national in scope. Subsequently, it should become permanent feature of the Medicare program.
- Increase funding for National Health Service Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs
- Expand primary care health professions programs in Sec. 747 of Title VII of the Public Health Service Act
- Provide additional pathways for scholarships and loan forgiveness programs to create incentives for new physicians to choose careers in primary care
- Increase Medicare payments for primary care services
- Develop and include some language about engaging consumers/patients as part of the target for stimulus dollars and health reform
XI. Recent Hill Meetings
- Monday, March 16th, 2:30 PM EST, John O'Brien, Congressional Fellow, Senator Robert Casey (Pennsylvania)
- Wednesday, March 11th, 4:00 PM EST, Stephen Cha, House Energy & Commerce Committee
- Thursday, March 4th, 10:00 AM EST, Dr. Ken Thorpe, Executive Director, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, 712-432-3900, Passcode: 471334#.
- Thursday, February 26th, 1:00 PM EST, Anne Morris, Committee on Energy and Commerce, 2322 Rayburn Building
- February 10th, 4:10 PM EST, Mona Shah, Sen. Barbara Mikulski's Staff, 503 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510
- February 6th, 2:00PM EST, Dr. Ken Thorpe, Executive Director, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, Dial-In Number: 712-432-3900, Passcode: 471334#.
- February 5th, 4:45PM EST, Nicole Tapay, Office of Senator Ron Wyden, 223 Dirksen Building
- February 5th, 4:00PM EST, Patricia DeLoache, Office of Senator Orrin Hatch, 104 Hart Senate Office Building
- February 5th, 1:00PM EST, Sara Selgrade, Ph.D., ASHG/NHGRI Genetics and Public Policy Fellow, Office of Senator Tom Harkin, 731 Hart Senate Office Building
- February 3rd, 11:00AM EST, Amy Hall (Rep. Henry Waxman's staff) and Hasan Sarsour (Rep. Frank Pallone's staff), House Energy and Commerce Commitee staff, 2125 Rayburn Building
Meetings needed
- Committee on Ways & Means
XII. Miscellaneous
Health Care Reform Plans being developed by Congressional Representatives.
The Healty Americans Act, sponsored by Senator Rob Wyden (D-Oregon) and Senator Bob Bennett (R-Utah) is the first bipartisan health reform proposal in more than a decade to gaurentee affordable, healthcare quality for all. To view a draft of The Healthy Americans Act, please click here.
H.R. 5348: American Health Benefits Program Act of 2008, sponsored by Rep. James Langevin (D-RI) and co-sponsored by Rep. Christopher Shay (R-CT) amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish under a new title XXII (American Health Benefits Program) a program to provide comprehensive health insurance coverage to all Americans who are: (1) not covered under certain federal health insurance programs; and (2) not eligible for employer-provided insurance coverage. To view the bill as it was introduced in the House, please click here.
The Healty Americans Act, sponsored by Senator Rob Wyden (D-Oregon) and Senator Bob Bennett (R-Utah) is the first bipartisan health reform proposal in more than a decade to gaurentee affordable, healthcare quality for all. To view a draft of The Healthy Americans Act, please click here.
H.R. 5348: American Health Benefits Program Act of 2008, sponsored by Rep. James Langevin (D-RI) and co-sponsored by Rep. Christopher Shay (R-CT) amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish under a new title XXII (American Health Benefits Program) a program to provide comprehensive health insurance coverage to all Americans who are: (1) not covered under certain federal health insurance programs; and (2) not eligible for employer-provided insurance coverage. To view the bill as it was introduced in the House, please click here.
Edwina Rogers, Executive Director
and
Relja Ugrinic, Director of Operations and External Affairs
Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative
The Homer Building
601 Thirteenth Street, NW, Suite 400 North
Washington, DC 20005
Edwina Direct: (202) 417-2081
Edwina Cell: (202) 674-7800
Relja Direct: (202) 724-3332
Relja Cell: (703) 585-9165
Fax: (202) 393-6148
erogers@pcpcc.net
rugrinic@pcpcc.net
www.pcpcc.net
and
Relja Ugrinic, Director of Operations and External Affairs
Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative
The Homer Building
601 Thirteenth Street, NW, Suite 400 North
Washington, DC 20005
Edwina Direct: (202) 417-2081
Edwina Cell: (202) 674-7800
Relja Direct: (202) 724-3332
Relja Cell: (703) 585-9165
Fax: (202) 393-6148
erogers@pcpcc.net
rugrinic@pcpcc.net
www.pcpcc.net
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| MH Letter.doc | 28 KB |
| PCPCC sign on budget resolution conference.doc | 32 KB |
| Suggestions to Operationalize the PCMH Concept for Consumers.doc | 36.5 KB |
- Newsletter:
- Tags:
Printer-friendly version