We need your help in order to help our respiratory patients! In compliance with certain statutory requirements, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently adjusted payment rates for durable medical equipment in non-competitive bid/rural areas based on competitive bid pricing, resulting in significant reductions which are impacting Medicare beneficiary access to needed […]
Students join us Friday, May 6 for a Professional Development Day at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Guest lecturers include Frank Salvatore, AARC President; Sheri Tooley, NYSSRC Delegate; Stephen G. Smith, Past Chair & Extended Member, New York State Board for Respiratory Therapy and NYSSRC, Regional Director, Long Island Region; Lisa M. Endee, Faculty, Stony Brook
The Medicare Telehealth Parity Act has been reintroduced in Congress with the bill number H.R. 2948. This past spring over 120 respiratory therapists from around the country, including those who represent the Political Advocacy Contact Team (PACT) from your state, descended on Washington D.C. These respiratory therapists came to lobby their members of Congress to
AARC Capitol Connection – Write to Congress Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) has introduced the AARC-backed Medicare Respiratory Therapist Access Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill, identified as HR 2619, will permit qualified respiratory therapists to provide self-management services to Medicare patients in physician’s offices. “We have listened to the feedback from previous
