WiHPCA 2024 Legislative Priorities Member Survey
1. What state and federal legislative/regulatory issues do you believe WiHPCA should prioritize during the 2025-26 legislative session? Choose your top three.
Grow/strengthen Wisconsin’s hospice and palliative care workforce.
Promote higher utilization of community-based palliative care.
Promote greater standardization in palliative care delivery requirements.
Promote public awareness and increase policy influence of palliative care, such as the creation of state palliative care advisory council.
Seek a cost-benefit study of the value of palliative care to use in WiHPCA advocacy efforts.
Advocate for increased funds to expand the state’s existing allied health professional education and training grants program.
Require all Wisconsin health plans who cover hospice services to pay hospices no less than published CMS hospice rates.
Advocate for increased funding for the nurse educators program.
Require managed care organizations to only provide hospice and palliative care to partnership members through a licensed hospice.
Create a Medicaid palliative care per member, per month pilot program.
Other
2. Are you or your organization working on any state or federal legislative/regulatory proposal you would like to see introduced or addressed during the 2025-26 legislative session?
Yes
No
If yes, please explain.
3. Are there any other state or federal legislative or regulatory issues you believe WiHPCA should support or address during the 2025-26 legislative session? If yes, please explain.
Yes
No
If yes, please explain.
4. What resources/efforts are you able to offer to advance WiHPCA legislative/regulatory initiatives during the 2025-26 legislative session? Please choose all that apply.
Meet in-district with your local legislators on issues important to WiHPCA.
Participate in a potential in-person WiHPCA “Day at the Capitol” event.
Participate in a potential virtual WiHPCA Advocacy Day.
Contact your lawmakers via e-mail or phone on issues important to WiHPCA.
Provide expert testimony at legislative public hearings at the State Capitol.
Help develop briefing papers/fact sheets for state and federal lawmakers.
Join WiHPCA’s Legislative Committee.
Other
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