🏠 Action Alert: Make your voice heard for HCBS now! 🏠
All too often, people with disabilities are told we aren’t worth investing in—but we know that our community deserves the supports and services we need…
April 4, 2022
HCBS
House Passes Largest-Ever Federal Investment in HCBS
This morning, the House passed the Build Back Better Act. This bill includes the largest-ever federal investment in home- and community-based services (HCBS) to date…
November 19, 2021
ASAN Welcomes Discussion Draft of HCBS Access Act
A one-pager about the The Home and Community-Based Services Access Act can be found as a PDF here. The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), The…
March 16, 2021
ASAN Comments On CMS HCBS Recommended Measure Set
This letter is available as a PDF here. November 18, 2020Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)7500 Security BoulevardBaltimore, MD 21244 Submitted electronically to: HCBSMeasuresRFI@cms.hhs.gov…
November 24, 2020
Action Alert: HCBS at risk — call and email NOW to save critical community services!
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been calling on our Senators to protect the disability community and pass a COVID-19 relief bill that includes emergency…
August 3, 2020
Action Alert: HCBS at risk — call and email NOW to save critical community services!
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been calling on our Senators to protect the disability community and pass a COVID-19 relief bill that includes emergency…
July 24, 2020
ASAN Condemns HCBS Settings Rule Delay
ASAN condemns the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for their continued delay of the HCBS Settings Rule. The Home and Community-Based Services Settings Rule,…
July 14, 2020
Action Alert: Tell your Senators to support emergency funding for HCBS!
UPDATE: Call-ins are temporarily cancelled and will resume shortly. Coping with a global pandemic is hard enough without losing access to the services that keep…
May 28, 2020
Coalition Statement On Updated HCBS Guidance
This statement is available as a PDF here. Today, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance that reaffirms its commitment to implementing…
March 22, 2019
Q&A: HCBS “Heightened Scrutiny” Regulation
This Q&A provides an overview of the requirements of 2014 federal regulations that any setting receiving Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) funding must have…
October 23, 2015
ASAN Comment on California’s HCBS Transition Plan
Department of Health Care Services Long-Term Care Division, STP comments 1501 Capitol Avenue, MS 4503 PO Box 997437 Sacramento, CA 95899-7437 VIA EMAIL: STP@dhcs.ca.gov …
December 8, 2014
ASAN Letter: Wisconsin’s Sheltered Workshops Aren’t “Community-Based”
This letter is available as a PDF here. October 7, 2014 Honorable Marilyn Tavenner Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 7500 Security Boulevard Baltimore,…
October 7, 2014