MICHAEL BARNETT

Medicare offset proposals impacting Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities; Post-Acute care reform and quality assessment; access to rehabilitation services and devices; health reform implementation; essential health benefits; preservation of Medicaid access; Post-Acute care reform legislation; Three Hour Rule legislation under Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities and Preauthorization under Medicare; IRF Review Choice Demonstration Proposal.

Healthcare access; brain injury treatment and research; health reform implementation; essential benefits; Medicare and Medicaid issues; quality improvement; evidenced-based medicine; protection for post-acute care services Value Based Purchasing and PAC bundling; access to rehab services under Managed Care; Three Hour Rule legislation under Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities and pre-authorization for Medicare Advantage; NDAA amendments on brain injury studies; TBI Act reauthorization.

Medicare and Medicaid coding and payment coverage of O&P; VA access issues; research funding; quality of patient care; O&P access; Medicare O&P Patient Centered Care Act; essential benefits; Medicare physician documentation; ACA implementation; Medicare Audit and Appeals Legislation; prior authorization regulations and off-the-shelf orthotics; TCET legislation; appropriations funding for the orthotics and prosthetics outcome research program under DOD.

Assistive device coverage; healthcare reform and Medicare policy; complex rehab as separate Medicare benefit and delay of competitively bid pricing on accessories; disposable medical technology legislation; DMEPOS competitive bidding; In-the-Home restriction under Medicare DME benefit; essential health benefits; Medicare coverage of seat elevation and standing feature wheelchairs; Complex Rehabilitation Technology legislation; TCET legislation; Medicare coverage of hearing and vision technology; Medicare Coverage of titanium and carbon fiber wheelchairs.

Building support among disability and minority organizations in support of /H.R. 6860 and senate companion.

Medicare inpatient rehabilitation hospital legislative and regulatory proposals; health care and entitlement reform; access to rehabilitation services and devices; essential health benefits under the Affordable care Act; Medicare post-acute care bundling legislation; 3 Hour Rule and prior authorization legislation; IRF Review Choice Demonstration Proposal.

AMERICAN MEDICAL REHABILITATION PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA

COALITION TO PRESERVE REHABILITATION

ORTHOTIC & PROSTHETIC ALLIANCE

INDEPENDENCE THROUGH ENHANCEMENT OF MEDICARE AND MEDICAID (ITEM) COALITION

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION

AMERICAN THERAPEUTIC RECREATION ASSOCIATION

DAVITA, INC.

AMERICAN MEDICAL REHABILITATION PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION

AMERICAN MEDICAL REHABILITATION PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION

INDEPENDENCE THROUGH ENHANCEMENT OF MEDICARE AND MEDICAID (ITEM) COALITION

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA