The Society Joins Others in Addressing President’s Executive Order on Medicare

Recently, the Society joined other post-acute and long-term care workforce groups in addressing a recent executive order entitled Protecting and Improving Medicare for our Nation’s Seniors. The groups commended the efforts in section 5 of the executive order to ensure that access to high-quality care in not hampered by outdated barriers to practice; that section of the order calls for the removal of burdensome requirements that prevent clinicians from practicing to the top of their profession. “We request that you act to ensure this barrier to practice is removed by promulgating regulations to ensure NPs, PAs, CNMs, and CNSs are authorized to document face-to-face assessments and certify/recertify plans of care for Medicare and Medicaid patients,” stated the letter.

The groups also wrote another similar letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Request for Information on scope of practice.

Click here to read the letter.