ROBERT DIAMOND

Funding opportunities, including Community Project Funds, Provider Relief Funds. COVID, PHE, ERC, FEMA, and relief funding and regulatory issues. Post- acute care and Skilled Nursing Legislative and Regulatory Issues. Medicare and Medicaid coverage and reimbursement. Telehealth and PACE program. Workforce and nursing home staffing issues. CMS proposed rule 88 FR 61352: Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting.

Funding opportunities, including Community Project Funds. COVID, PHE, ERC, FEMA, and relief funding and regulatory issues. Post-acute care and Skilled Nursing Legislative and Regulatory Issues. Medicare and Medicaid coverage and reimbursement. Telehealth and PACE program. Workforce and nursing home staffing issues. H.R.468, the Building Americas Health Care Workforce Act. H.R.3227/S.1749, the Ensuring Seniors Access to Quality Care Act. CMS proposed rule 88 FR 61352: Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting. LPN Apprenticeship Program.

US-Ontario (Canada) bilateral relations.

Advocacy for provisions related to a national strategy related to hunger and nutrition and Food is Medicine initiatives in FY 2024 and FY 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations measures.

Advocacy on Medicare Food as Medicine, improvements to Medicare services related to nutrition clinical care and related physician and hospital reimbursement. Support medically tailored meals for Medicare beneficiaries, including provisions in H.R. 6780, the Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Pilot Act, and S. 2133, the Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Act. Monitor H.R. 8816, the American Medical Innovation and Investment Act, as amended by the Ways and Means Committee to add Sec. 7, to add a medically-tailored home-delivered meals demonstration program in Medicare.

Support improvement in nutrition, food as medicine, and chronic disease issues especially in the elderly, including advocacy on: a unified national strategy related to hunger and nutrition; a Food as Medicine pilot program; funding and guidance on nutrition education and training for physicians and health care providers and research on the role of nutrition in diet-related disease, including related provisions in: H.R. 9631, to provide for the establishment or expansion of Food as Medicine programs; and S. 2840, the Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act to: (1) require HHS, in consultation with USDA, to create a strategic plan to improve health outcomes related to chronic conditions; and (2) require the HHS strategic plan to recommend ways to enable federally funded community health centers to provide produce prescriptions, medically tailored groceries, and medically tailored meals, and issue recommendations for reimbursement for such services in other federal programs.

INTUIT, INC. AND AFFILIATES

LORETTO HEALTH AND REHABILITATION

ANBARIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS, LLC

WALMART INC

GOVERNMENT OF ONTARIO - MINISTRY OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS

FOOD FIX CAMPAIGN ACTION, INC.

CYBERTRAN INTERNATIONAL, INC.

NYISO (NEW YORK INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATOR)

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

AMERICAN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION

NATIONAL SOCIETY OF GENETIC COUNSELORS

GENENTECH