Medicare Homebound Restriction

Medicare Homebound Restriction

Write Scully About Medicare Homebound Restriction.!

Two weeks prior to issuing the July 26th guidance on the homebound restriction, Tom Scully, the Administrator of the Center on Medicare and Medicaid Services, met with David Jayne and others working to amend the law. Mr. Scully said that he is extremely concerned that some Medicare beneficiaries are unjustly and wrongfully thrown off the home health benefit for so called "homebound violations."

The CMS Administrator also asked for the disability community's help in identifying Medicare beneficiaries who have had their home health services cut off because of an extremely harsh interpretation of the homebound restriction. If you or someone you know have been cut off home health for what you believe to have been a wrongful interpretation of the homebound rule, please contact Tom Scully by e mail at tscully@cms.hhs.gov.

In emailing Mr. Scully be sure to:

Describe the circumstances surrounding why home health services were discontinued because of an alleged "homebound violation".
Explain your disability or chronic illness and why you need to continue to get Medicare home health services.
Include contact information (email, phone and mailing address) for yourself and the home health agency so that Mr. Scully's staff can follow up.

Make sure to advise the CMS Administrator on your reactions to the July 26th "policy clarification" as well. Please be sure to send a copy of your e-mails to Mr. Scully to AIMMM at AIMMM@halftheplanet.org

Alerting the Administrator to instances of where the homebound rule is being misapplied will provide us with further evidence and personal examples of why the Congress and President Bush MUST amend the homebound policy this year! We will compile as many as these personal examples of why the homebound rule is unjust to share with the White House, the Congress and the news media.

Hence, if you have a story share with Tom Scully about how you or someone you know has been unjustly denied Medicare home health services because of the homebound rule please do so today. It will help make a world of difference for you, your family and countless other Americans for whom home health should be a lifesaver not a life sentence. Thank you.

Bob Williams and Henry Claypool, Co Directors Advancing Independence: Modernizing Medicare and Medicaid AIMMM. . . For a Better Tomorrow

Henry Claypool
AIMMM
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