----- Forwarded message from Lemmietta McNeilly <LMcNeilly@...> -----
     Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:08:48 -0400
     From: Lemmietta McNeilly <LMcNeilly@...>
Reply-To: Lemmietta McNeilly <LMcNeilly@...>
  Subject: Government Relations and Public Policy Update September 2005
       To: ASHA Headlines <asha-headlines@...>

Dear Headliners:



Please review Government Relations and Public Policy Update September
2005



The full text of the September 2005 ASHA GRPP Update is available on the
ASHA Web site at
http://www.asha.org/about/legislation-advocacy/federal/updates/SeptGRPPU
pdate2005.htm. Contents of the update include:





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  TAKE ACTION

* Action Needed to Halt Restart of Therapy Caps

STATES

* ASHA Informs State Legislators of Policy Goals at Annual NCSL
Meeting
* Aftermath of Katrina Stresses Portability of the CCC
* SEALs & State Advisory Groups Plan Meetings for ASHA Annual
Convention

HEALTH CARE

* House & Senate Put Forward Pay-For-Performance Legislation
* TRICARE Announces Expanded Coverage of Hearing Aids
* CMS Relaxes Health Program Requirements in Response to Hurricane

* Medicare Payments Stay Healthy in 2006 for Nursing Homes
* Medicare Requires HIPAA Compliant Billing Starting October 1
* Substantial Increases Proposed for Audiology in 2006 Outpatient
Hospital Rates
* Proposed Cut in 2006 Medicare Fee Schedule Payments
* CDC Offers New EHDI "Questions to Ask the Audiologist" Brochure
for Parents
* Senate Appropriators Restore EHDI, SLP & Audiology Education
Funds
* Rehabilitation Hospitals to Receive 3.4 % Increase in Medicare
Payments in 2006

SCHOOLS

* ED Striving Readers Grants Available
* ED Release Guidance on Alternate Assessments
* ED Announce Grants for Graduate Assistance in Areas of National
Need





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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