The following article was published by AAHomecare in their 7/03/2013 Wednesday in Washington report:
In AAHomecare visits to Capitol Hill, staffers on both the House and Senate sides have indicated that they need solid data from us to confirm their suspicions that the data provided by CMS is not telling the whole picture of the bidding program’s impacts.
Here are the pieces of data that we need every member to collect:
We will aggregate the data, remove anything that could identify a specific company, and give it to Hill staffers to counter CMS’ outrageous claims that the bidding program is working smoothly and that there are no negative impacts on beneficiaries.
After you gather the data needed from beneficiaries, ask them to make three follow-up calls:
It will be helpful to beneficiaries if you put together a handout for them that lists PFQC’s phone number, CMS’ phone number, and the congressional switchboard number (listed above). You could also look up an individual beneficiary’s members of Congress on the AAHomecare web site at http://action.aahomecare.org/. All you need is their zip code.
Send the data you collect weekly to AAHomecare’s Peter Rankin at peterr@aahomecare.org and copy OAMES executive director Kam Yuricich at kam@oames.org. If you have questions, call Peter at 202-372-0755 or Kam at 614-652-9927.