NAC Act on RAISE: 2025 Physician Fee Schedule - Letter to CMS
Through the combined advocacy efforts of the Act on RAISE campaign and the Cancer Caregiving Collaborative, the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC) rallied 36 organizations to sign-on to a comment letter sent to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) concerning the proposed rule for the CY 2025 Physician Fee Schedule.
The yearly revisions to the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) present a continuous chance to advance the goals of the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers, enhancing collaboration and involvement with family caregivers within care teams. These updates enable us to pinpoint, enact, and refine policies that guarantee family caregivers are acknowledged and incorporated as crucial participants in patient care.
In the September 9, 2024 letter, NAC outlined support for policy changes and, in addition, encouraged CMS to consider addressing the following as it finalizes the proposed rule:
- Allow more types of healthcare workers to provide caregiver training services. This would help increase access to training.
- Set clear standards for caregiver training or point to existing high-quality training programs as examples. This ensures caregivers receive quality training.
- Make it clear that these new caregiver training services are meant to add to, not replace, the home health aides’ services that Medicare already covers.
- Make sure the payment rates for caregiver training services are high enough to encourage healthcare providers to offer them. Also, think about how requiring patients to pay part of the cost (co-pays) might affect how widely these services are used.
Read the Letter to CMS.
Learn more about NAC's letter.
Read the CMS Proposed Rule.
Learn more about ACT on RAISE.
Learn more about NAC.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of NAC.
