Regulatory comment supporting the NCQA’s Proposed Changes to Existing HEDIS Measures: Follow-Up After Emergency Department Visit for Mental Illness (FUM) and Follow-Up After Hospitalization for Mental Illness (FUH), and providing additional recommendations to strengthen the measures, including guidance on follow-up care.
Regulatory comment to the Administration for Children and Families applauding efforts to prioritize mental health throughout Head Start programs, and offering comments to strengthen the proposed rule, “Supporting the Head Start Workforce and Consistent Quality Programming (0970-AD01).”
Letter urging Congressional leadership to reauthorize the SUPPORT Act of 2023 within the upcoming FY24 Funding Package ahead of the March 22nd deadline.
Letter encouraging Congress to support robust FY2025 funding of at least $740 million for the BRAIN Initiative.
Letter to Appropriations Committee leadership requesting $5 million for the FDA’s Neurology Drug Program to advance discoveries in all areas of brain health.
Letter to CMS Administrator Brooks-LaSure urging CMS to uphold Medicare’s “six protected classes” (6PC) policy as they implement changes to the Part D program required under the Inflation Reduction Act.
Letter to HHS Secretary Becerra and Domestic Policy Council Director Tanden urging the prompt finalization of a number of pending rules that will greatly advance affordable, accessible, and adequate healthcare coverage.
Letter to Senate Majority and Minority Leaders expressing strong support for the Ensuring Medicaid Continuity for Children in Foster Care Act of 2023 (S. 3196) and urgently requesting this bill be moved forward.
Regulatory comment to the Department of Labor, offering strong support to its proposal to rescind the 2018 “Definition of Employer—Association Health Plans” final rule.
Letter asking Senate HELP Committee to include the Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (PACE) Act in its reauthorization of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act.
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