In addition to the primary goal of protecting patients from surprise medical bills, we are writing to ensure that any surprise billing legislation that is included in the end-of-year package contain hospital contracting reform as proposed in the Lower Health Care Costs Act.
On behalf of the Gary and Mary West Health Institute (WHI), I am writing to thank you and your staff for your tireless efforts to reauthorize the Older Americans Act (OAA).
On behalf of West Health, I am pleased to submit written comments for the Ways & Means Committee hearing held on November 14, 2019, entitled “Caring for Aging Americans.”
Read the Gary and Mary West Health Institute’s letter supporting a proposal to require the California Department of Health Care Services to seek three-year federal approval of the State Plan Amendment to continue Proposition 56 supplemental rate increases.
April 29, 2019 Senator Richard Pan, Chair Senate Budget Subcommittee #3 on Health and Human Services State Capitol, Room 5019 Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: Clarifying the intent of the Virtual Dental Home (AB 1174 enacted in 2014) in the 2019-2020 California State Budget Honorable Senator Pan, I am writing on behalf of the Gary and… Read more »
Read the Gary and Mary West Health Institute’s letter supporting AB 316, which aims to permanently expand access to dental care for California’s low-income children and adults living with chronic medical, mental, behavioral or developmental conditions and disabilities.
Read comments from Karen Becerra, chief executive officer of the Gary and Mary West Senior Dental Center, to the authors of the forthcoming U.S. Surgeon General’s report on oral health in America.
Read comments from West Health’s Chief Strategy Officer, Timothy A. Lash, to the authors of the forthcoming U.S. Surgeon General’s report on oral health in America, calling for more robust Medicaid adult dental benefits, particularly for older adults.
Read the Gary and Mary West Health Institute’s letter supporting key objectives of H.R. 6502, which would allow the provision of defined telehealth services to Medicare beneficiaries at skilled nursing facilities.
Read the Gary and Mary West Health Institute’s comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the proposed rule, Accountable Care Organizations – Pathways to Success, which includes the agency’s efforts to accelerate two-sided performance-based risk models; the expansion of telehealth as an effective and enabling tool in these models; and the agency’s role in increasing beneficiary engagement in ACO selection.
