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🏠 Action Alert: Keep HCBS in the bill! #HCBSCantWait 🏠

| Ianthe Dempsey

The time to act is now! The House is preparing to vote on the COVID recovery bill. Thanks to your advocacy, the bill includes $150 billion for home- and community-based services (HCBS), an investment that would increase access to services and improve support workers’ pay. Now, we just have...

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ASAN Comments On CMS HCBS Recommended Measure Set

| Ianthe Dempsey

This letter is available as a PDF here. November 18, 2020Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)7500 Security BoulevardBaltimore, MD 21244 Submitted electronically to: HCBSMeasuresRFI@cms.hhs.gov Autistic Self Advocacy Network Regarding Request for Information: Recommended Measure Set for Medicaid-Funded Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)...

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ASAN Condemns HCBS Settings Rule Delay

| Ianthe Dempsey

ASAN condemns the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for their continued delay of the HCBS Settings Rule. The Home and Community-Based Services Settings Rule, or HCBS Settings Rule for short, would help people with disabilities exercise our right to live in the community. This rule, which was originally...

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Action Alert: Tell your Senators to support emergency funding for HCBS!

| Ianthe Dempsey

UPDATE: Call-ins are temporarily cancelled and will resume shortly. Coping with a global pandemic is hard enough without losing access to the services that keep us independent and in the community. Some of our community members are facing dangerous losses to their home- and community-based services. These are vital...

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Coalition Statement On Updated HCBS Guidance

| Ianthe Dempsey

This statement is available as a PDF here. Today, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance that reaffirms its commitment to implementing the Home and Community Based Settings (HCBS) Rule, including important requirements around the “heightened scrutiny” process for settings that have institutional qualities. First issued...

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ASAN Comment on California’s HCBS Transition Plan

| Ianthe Dempsey

Department of Health Care Services Long-Term Care Division, STP comments 1501 Capitol Avenue, MS 4503 PO Box 997437 Sacramento, CA 95899-7437 VIA EMAIL: STP@dhcs.ca.gov   Dear Sir or Madam: The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) appreciates the opportunity to submit the following comments on California’s statewide home and community-based...

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ASAN Letter: Wisconsin’s Sheltered Workshops Aren’t “Community-Based”

| JuliaBascom

This letter is available as a PDF here. October 7, 2014 Honorable Marilyn Tavenner Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 7500 Security Boulevard Baltimore, Maryland 21244   Dear Administrator Tavenner: We recognize that you received a letter from Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary Kitty Rhoades on August...

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