separate benefit

The complex rehab community rejoiced last week—there’s a new CRT bill on the floor, and stakeholders are ready to do up some new material and hit the Hill with it next month during the National CRT conference.

Today's lesson: If you really want to impress lawmakers, provide them with data.

I caught up with NCART's Don Clayback this morning. It's been a few weeks since he and other stakeholders hit the Hill to lobby for a separate benefit for complex rehab technology.

When they made those visits with lawmakers, the big question was: How much would it cost?

Industry stakeholders got a taste for what they're up against when, as part of CELA on Thursday, they visited lawmakers to discuss draft legislation for a separate benefit for complex rehab.

A Washington, D.C., healthcare lobbyist spelled out what industry stakeholders must do to get a separate benefit for complex rehab during a presentation at CELA on Wednesday.

We just had a debate in the office here about whether the slogan for President Obama's 2008 election was "Fired up? Ready to go!" or "Yes we can." I think they're both slogans that he used, but I seem to remember hearing the former more than the latter.

Take a gander at the five most read Rehab stories from www.hmenews.com for 2010:

•    “The Scooter Store pursues life outside of power mobility” (2,179 hits)

Don Clayback e-mailed NCART members late on Friday to let them know that a steering committee working on a separate benefit for complex rehab plans to publish a new "proposal paper" on Sept. 30. It also plans to hold two teleconferences to discuss the paper on Oct. 4 at 3 p.m.