For Immediate Release: May 10th, 2023
Who: National ADAPT
What: Demonstration Demanding Secretary Becerra and HHS work with ADAPT to end the Institutional Bias
When: Wednesday, May 10th 10am
Where: The Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue S.W.
Washington, D.C., 20201
For More information:
Misty Dion 570 367 6269 mdion@cilncp.org
Latoya Maddox 267 815 8688 lmaddox83@gmail.com
National ADAPT Social Media: LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/adaptnational
National ADAPT Demands that Secretary Xavier Becerra and HHS work with ADAPT towards Ending the Institutional Bias
National ADAPT has attempted for over a year to get the Center for Medicare and Medicaid to push policies down to the states that will help with Ending the Institutional Bias for our brothers and sisters with disabilities to remain as independent and free from barriers while living in the community.
National ADAPT is protesting today to Demand Secretary Xavier Becerra and HHS work with ADAPT towards Ending the Institutional Bias.
ADAPT Demands:
1. A meeting with Secretary Xavier Becerra
2. Community Attendants be paid a living wage with healthcare plans and benefits.
3. Secretary Becerra directs CMS to create network adequacy standards for all HCBS that provides under the Managed Care Long Term Services and Supports system.
4. Secretary Becerra appoints one of our members to the IL Specialist seat on the Guardianship Council outlined in Casey’s Federal Bill of Rights.
5. ADAPT Demands: that HHS puts a policy in place for emergency durable medical equipment repairs[1] [2]
DME: Timelines and penalties for the enforcement
and attendant workforce coverage if the attendant has & emergency, we demand HHS has a policy in place to cover these needs in a manner equivalent to consumers’ physical emergencies.
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