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Updates on Recent Executive Actions Impacting Public Policy Priorities
In response to the unprecedented number of executive actions that have been issued in the past few months, HPNA’s advocacy team has also created a webpage with updated information on potential impacts to HPNA’s policy priorities. The webpage is regularly updated with new executive orders and status updates, and the advocacy team continues to monitor legislative, regulatory, and legal changes that may impact nursing and hospice and palliative care. Learn more
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HPNA’s 2025 Policy Priorities
A new HPNA publication is available outlining our public policy priorities for 2025, which include: robust funding for nursing education and workforce funding, eliminating barriers preventing nurses from practicing at the top of their licensure and training, strengthening the Medicare hospice benefit, supporting palliative care research, and improving patient access to high-quality hospice and palliative care. Learn more
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HPNA Signs on to NCC Letter Supporting Nurses PRECEPT Act
The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) joined more than 50 nursing organizations in signing on to a February 28 letter from the Nursing Community Coalition to Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Representative Jen Kiggans (R-VA), thanking them for introducing the Providing Real-World Education and Clinical Experience by Precepting Tomorrow’s (PRECEPT) Nurses Act (H.R.392/S.131).
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Patient Quality of Life Coalition prioritizes NIH funding in letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee
The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) joined national partner organizations in signing on to a Patient Quality of Life Coalition (PQLC) letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leadership, requesting that they prioritize funding for the National Institutes of Health in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 legislation.
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HPNA Signs onto an NCC Letter to Congressional Leadership Reiterating Nursing Funding Priorities
HPNA has signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition Letter to congressional leadership reiterating nursing funding priorities.
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HPNA Joins Nursing Community Coalition in Sending Letters to Congressional Leadership
HPNA sent letters to congressional leadership outlining nursing priorities and reiterating FY 2025 funding requests.
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HPNA Supports Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Long-Term Care Minimum Staffing Standards for LTC Facilities Final Rule
HPNA joined a large coalition of nursing organizations in sending a letter to congressional leadership in support of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Long-Term Care Minimum Staffing Standards for LTC Facilities Final Rule.
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Join HPNA in Urging Congress to Take Action on Telehealth Before Flexibilities Expire in December
Before adjourning until November, Congress passed a stopgap measure to fund the government at current levels until December 20. When they return after the election for a lame duck session, House and Senate leadership will need to prioritize passing a Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations bill. With legislators are home in their districts over the next few months, it is the perfect time to let them know how important it is to fund priorities such as palliative care research in an appropriations bill but also to make sure any end-of-year package includes language to extend COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities, including the option to conduct the hospice recertification face-to-face visit via telehealth, past the deadline of December 31. For more information, read the letter that HPNA and partner organizations sent to House and Senate leadership last week.
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Telehealth Modernization Act
On September 18, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 41-0 to pass H.R. 7623, the Telehealth Modernization Act. This bipartisan legislation would extend through 2026 certain flexibilities authorized during the public health emergency related to COVID-19, including the opportunity to use telehealth to conduct the required face-to-face (F2F) encounter under the Medicare hospice benefit. It also would allow rural health clinics and federal qualified health centers to serve as the distant site, the home of a beneficiary to serve as a distant site for all services, and all types of practitioners to furnish telehealth services, as determined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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HPNA Comments on the Passage of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill.
HPNA recently sent a letter to Capitol Hill thanking Senate appropriators for including funding for palliative care research, nursing workforce, and other priorities in the Senate Fiscal Year 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.
