Help Stroke Survivors on Medicare

Another email from the NSA. When are they going to learn that their approach is totally wrong.  With existing proven therapies so ineffective they need to prevent the need for that therapy by working on finding hyperacute therapies like these:
I've even conveniently compiled 162 options  for you to give to them

Hyperacute options for stroke

 Detail exactly this when you talk to the NSA. Maybe you can get thru to Jim Baranski, he is ignoring me.  I think he's afraid.


Dear dean,
Congress is currently debating the future of some Medicare therapy services. Tell your members of Congress how important therapy is to a stroke survivor’s recovery and urge them to maintain access to existing Medicare therapy services in 2013. It only takes a minute to help.

The most severely impacted stroke survivors would be affected. Why? Medicare currently limits, or caps, outpatient therapy services on an annual basis. For stroke survivors covered by Medicare who have been severely impacted by their stroke, this level of therapy may not be enough. The Medicare program allows survivors who have reached the caps to apply for additional services through an “exceptions process,” but that option is set to expire at the end of this year on Dec. 31, 2012.

Ask Congress to extend this process so stroke survivors covered by Medicare get the therapy services they need to recover to their fullest potential. Each survivor’s recovery should guide therapy decisions, not arbitrary caps. An estimated 640,000 seniors will lose needed therapy services if Congress doesn’t act this month! Take action today to support their recovery.

Sincerely,

Coral Cosway
Director, Policy Advocacy