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#HospiceWorks!
Join NHPCO and the Hospice Action Network as we celebrate coming together to speak out for hospice and palliative care.
Each year, Hospice Action Week brings together advocates from across the nation to meet with Congressional offices about better policies for serious-illness and end-of-life care. Support their efforts! Take Action below to contact your legislators and tweet them to support our issues.
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HAW 2024 Vitals
100+ Hospice Advocates on the Hill
- From across the full spectrum of hospice and palliative care providers and stakeholders, including state association leaders, C-suite members, medical directors, nurses, volunteer coordinators, and more.
- Representing 34 states across the nation.
- More than half of attendees had never participated in a DC Hill Day previously.
- For the first time, included a large cohort of Veterans providers.
150+ Congressional Offices Visited
- 58 Senate offices
- 98 Representative offices
- Meeting with members of all political parties, including offices of Speaker Mike Johnson and Leader Chuck Schumer.
- Engaging with hospice champions, including a majority of House Ways and Means Committee members and members of the Senate Finance Committee.
Policy Priority Asks
- Hospice Special Focus Program: Support efforts calling on CMS to adjust the hospice SFP to better capture poor performers rather than penalize good actors with a bad algorithm.
- Fraud: Support for CMS to implement a temporary, targeted moratorium in states seeing a disproportionate number of bad actors: CA, AZ, NV, TX.
- Telehealth: Support the Hospice Recertification Flexibility Act (H.R.8278).
- Veterans: Support Gerald’s Law Act (S.1330 / H.R. 234).
- Workforce: Support the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA) (S. 2243).
- Payment: Support efforts calling on CMS to give adequate annual payment increases.
- Payment: Oppose cutting or further slowing the growth of the Hospice Aggregate Cap.
HAW 2024 Press and Socials
• Advocates Rally in DC for the Future of Hospice – NHPCO
• Lawmakers Remain Committed to Passing Hospice Workforce Bill – Hospice News
• #HAW2024 Instagram Reel – Mourning Dove Medical
• “National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and its advocacy affiliate, The Hospice Action Network, brought together leading advocates like us from around the country to represent the hospice and palliative care community.” – MJHS
• “Hospice providers and their patients appreciate your support!” – Illinois Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (IL-HPCO)
• “This week we joined the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and The Hospice Action Network to speak out for hospice and palliative care and meet with congressional offices about better policies for serious illness and end-of-life care.” – The HAP Foundation
• “Shannon Pointer, Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina, Senior Vice President of Hospice & Palliative Care is at #HAW2024” – Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina
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