Audio, Articles, Links & Background Information (there is further information as well in the Legislative Update section): CNN Coverage of the Hearing: CNN TONIGHT: Disabled Man Fights to Keep his Medicare Coverage Aired May 19, 2001 - 18:18 ET The Kaiser Network Reports on the Briefing: "Bipartisan Bill Would! Loosen Medicare Home Health Eligibility Restrictions" [May 21, 2001] Audio: Listen to David Jayne's Interview and his Congressman Mac Collins with radio's Nationally Syndicated Greg Smith (from www.onarollradio.com. The interview is in the second hour of a two our program so please direct the slide bar to 1:08 on your Real Audio player (Listen now to the interview! from December 17, 2000). Articles & Audio: People Magazine's April Edition 2001 Features A Story On David Jayne and Why It's Time To Amend Medicare's Homebound Restriction: "Brave Heart". Thank You People Magazine (And Its 37 Million Wonderful Readers)! Please help homebound people -- mail a copy of the article to the President and your members of Congress so they understand this issue. "Hostages of Home Care: Medicare Rule Confines Disabled" (by Barry Corbet, Denver Post, Sunday, July 15, 2001) Special thanks to Barry Corbet for his wonderful article! "HR 1490 will help many, injure no one, and deserves the support of all Americans. Please sign the petition on David Jayne's website and urge your congressional delegation to support the bill. If HR 1490 passes, it will end Medicare's outworn dictum that people who need home care to be mobile must be barred from an active life. " Barry Corbet is the former editor of New Mobility (www.newmobility.com) -- New Mobility has endorsed NCAHB!! Cliff Crase, Editor of Paraplegia News (published by the Paralyzed Veterans of America), speaks out about the homebound rule and David Jayne in PN's March Edition: "Reasons & Remarks: The Bafflin' Bureaucracy" "The Tin Man's Heart", from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (by Bill Torpy) (Listen) via Real Audio or (Listen) via Quick Time "Company takes away home care for man with Lou Gehrigs Disease", The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (by Bill Torpy) "Benefits Restored", The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (by Bill Torpy) "Homebound Rule Must be Abolished" (by Mike Volkman, Albany Times Union, Albany, New York) "Homebound and Wishing They Weren't" (by Miriam Braunstein, New Mobility) "The David Jayne Story" (Chronology of events & Editorial) By Lewis Golinker, Esq. BIPA Section 507 - Recent Amendment By Vicki Gottlich, Staff Attorney, National Senior Citizens Law Center Medicare Links: HCFA Program Memo: On Feb 6, 2001, HCFA posted Program Memo A-01-21 entitled "Clarification of the Homebound Definition Under the Medicare Home Health Benefit" to its website. Note this document is in "pdf" format: http://www.hcfa.gov/pubforms/transmit/A0121.pdf More on the most recent statutory amendments which have modified the homebound definition under BIPA (from the Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc.) Legislative E-mail Links: Legal Links: Buffalo Neighborhood Legal Services on the Web (Excellent resources, Medicare links & Links to the United States Code and the Code of Federal Regulations) National Senior Citizens Law Center (reference material) National Association for Home Care (Legislative Update Page is very helpful) ADA & Olmstead Decision (from HCFA) |
