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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:18:55 -0400
From: Lemmietta McNeilly <LMcNeilly@...>
Reply-To: Lemmietta McNeilly <LMcNeilly@...>
Subject: ASHA Calls for Action as Therapy Cap Countdown Drops Under 100 Days
To: ASHA Headlines <asha-headlines@...>

ASHA Calls for Action as Therapy Cap Countdown Drops Under 100 Days



Medicare beneficiaries once again face having their therapy benefits
limited in fewer than 100 days if Congress fails to take action. ASHA
has been working intensely with key congressional committees and other
therapy organizations to develop an alternative to the therapy caps that
meets the fiscal constraints of the Medicare program.



To supplement this effort, ASHA has launched a grassroots campaign aimed
at Congress over the next month. ASHA members are encouraged to contact
their members of Congress and warn them that they have to pass Medicare
legislation this year to prevent a $1,750 therapy cap from being
implemented on January 1, 2006.



Please contact your members of Congress through our Take Action web site
at http://www.asha.org/takeaction.htm and ask them to support H.R. 916
and S. 438 to repeal the Medicare therapy caps. The issue brief and
background information are available in ASHA's Therapy Cap Advocacy
Center at http://www.asha.org/about/legislation-advocacy/federal/cap/.
For further information, please contact Reed Franklin, ASHA's Director
for Federal and Political Advocacy, via e-mail at rfranklin@... or
at 800-274-2376, ext. 4473.









Lemmietta G. McNeilly, PhD., CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow

Chief Staff Officer, Speech-Language Pathology

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

10801 Rockville Pike

Rockville, MD 20852

301/897-0108 Telephone

301/897-7356 Fax

lmcneilly@...





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