CURRENT CALLS FOR ACTION

UPCOMING EVENTS

​NASL Advocates Need Voices Heard on 2021 Physician Fee Schedule Cuts
Contact your Member of Congress today, and urge them to oppose significant cuts to patients’ rehab therapy and diagnostic services especially during the public health emergency.

TAKE ACTION NOW 
 

Tell Congress to Waive Restrictions on the Use of Telehealth: Support the CONNECT for Health Act (H.R. 4923/S. 2741)

Email your members of Congress urging them to include the CONNECT for Health Act in any future COVID-19 legislation.

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COVID-19 Helpful Links

Click here to hear what our members say.   
 

Register today for the
NASL 31st Annual Meeting and
Rehab Symposium
 

Click here for timed Annual Meeting Agenda

Click here for timed Pre-Conference Rehab Symposium Agenda




Become a sponsor of
NASL's first virtual conference!

​Click the calendar for upcoming NASL Committee and Workgroup calls.

 

Therapy Collaboration in SNFs:
A Certificate of Skills in Medicare, MDS, and PDPM for Therapy Professionals
 

Visit https://www.aapacn.org/therapy-nasl 
for more information or to sign up.       

NASL Webinar
2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and
Advocating to Fight the Cuts
 

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IN THE NEWS

NASL submitted comments to CMS in response to its CY2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule, focusing on concerns with the prpoosed change to the CY2021 Conversion Factor, the importance of continuing telehealth services after the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, and other issues.  (10/5/20)

CMS launched its new, streamlined, user-friendly Medicare Care Compare website, which allows users to “find and compare doctors, hospitals and other providers near you.”  (9/3/20)

The Physician Fee Schedule for CY 2021 was released in this morning's Federal Register.  Access the 1,300+ page pdf here; access CMS' Fact Sheet on the Physician Fee Schedule here; access NASL's Summary of the Proposed Rule here and NASL’s full Summary and Analysis here (member login required). (8/7/20)

SNF Provider Preview Reports have been updated and are now available. Data reflects what will be published on Nursing Home Compare during the October 2020 refresh of the website.  Providers have until August 30, 2020 to review their performance data and to request a CMS review of their data if they believe the quality measure scores that are displayed within their Preview Reports are inaccurate. (8/6/20)

CMS released the SNF PPS Final Rule for FY 2021 this afternoon.  In the unpublished version of the Final Rule, the market basket was finalized lower than the proposed rule; 2.2% rather than the proposed  2.3%.  A Fact Sheet on the Final Rule is available here.  We are still awaiting release of the CY2021 Physician Fee Schedule.  (7/31/20)

Meet Cynthia Morton, McKnight’s 2020 Women of Distinction Hall of Honor Inductee, McKnight’s Long-Term Care News (7/20/20)
 

NASL has established a webpage of information on the Coronavirus COVID-19 for NASL members here:  http://nasl.mymemberfuse.com/groups/profile/view/groupid/9849