Support an SLP: CMS Comment Builder

Support an SLP: CMS Comment Builder

Do you have an SLP in your life? Help us SPEAK up for them. Your spouse, family member, friend, or loved one invested years of education, training, and financial resources to become a speech-language pathologist. Now, proposed changes to Medicare reimbursement could affect the value of the services they provide and the future of the profession they chose .CMS is accepting public comments, and you do not have to be an SLP or healthcare professional to submit one. Tell us about the SLP in your life and why you believe their work deserves appropriate reimbursement. We'll use your answers to create an individualized draft comment that reflects your own perspective. It will be emailed back to you so you can review, edit, and submit it directly to CMS. Please do not include patient names or identifying health information.
ABOUT YOU
Name

First NameLast Name
Your Email Address
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What state do you live in?
What is your relationship to the SLP you are supporting?
CONNECTION TO THE SLP
How long have you known this person?
What have you seen this person invest in becoming an SLP and/or while working as an SLP?
Think about years of college and graduate school, tuition, student loans, clinical training, licensing, continuing education, time away from family, or other sacrifices you've personally seen.
What have you personally seen about the work they do as an SLP?
What have they shared with you about their work? What have you seen regarding their workload, responsibilities, time spent outside treatment sessions, stress, documentation, preparation, or commitment to their patients?
From your perspective, what makes the work this SLP does valuable?
You might think about the people they serve, changes you've heard about or witnessed, their expertise, the responsibility they carry, or why you believe their work matters.
HOW COULD REIMBURSEMENT AFFECT THEM?
Medicare reimbursement helps establish the value of healthcare services and can influence payment beyond Medicare. CMS is currently considering payment changes, which includes payment decreases, affecting speech-language pathology services. We want CMS to understand what those decisions can mean for the people actually doing this work.
Before today, were you aware that reimbursement for SLP services could potentially decrease?
What concerns you about the possibility of lower reimbursement for SLP services?
Think about the SLP you know personally. Could it affect their income, ability to repay student loans, financial stability, workload, job choices, willingness or ability to remain in certain settings, or future in the profession? Tell us what concerns YOU. You do not need to address all of these.
Have you seen reimbursement, salary, workload, or financial pressures already affect the SLP in your life?
If yes, tell us what you have personally seen or heard from them.
WHAT DO YOU WANT CMS TO KNOW?
If you could tell CMS one thing about the SLP in your life and the value of their work, what would you want them to understand?
What concerns you about what could happen to the SLP profession if reimbursement does not keep pace with the cost of becoming an SLP and providing these services?
You can think about whether people will continue choosing the profession, whether experienced SLPs can afford to stay, access to services, staffing, or anything else that concerns you.
Is there anything else you want CMS to know or consider when making payment decisions affecting speech-language pathology services?
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Support an SLP: CMS Comment Builder

ABOUT YOU

CONNECTION TO THE SLP

HOW COULD REIMBURSEMENT AFFECT THEM?

WHAT DO YOU WANT CMS TO KNOW?