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Supplemental Spending Bill

WASHINGTON, DC (July 2, 2008) – This week, the President signed a $257 billion supplemental spending bill which includes moratoria on six (of seven) pending and controversial Medicaid regulations.

The Senate, last week, overwhelmingly approved the compromise war supplemental spending bill.  In May, the House and Senate had approved versions of the massive spending bill which included delays to all seven of the Medicaid regulations.  But due to a Presidential veto threat, House leaders entered into negotiations with the White House and Republican leaders. A compromise bill, which included six of the seven moratoria, was approved by the House on June 19^th and the Senate last week.  The six regulations delayed until April, 2009 include the Medicaid rehabilitative services option, targeted case management, and school-based services rules.  

This is a huge victory for ACCSES and its coalition partners who have worked so hard over the last year to ensure that the Medicaid rehab services option regulation, and other harmful Medicaid rules, do not go into effect.

The House just approved HR 5613, legislation to delay implementation of the seven Medicaid regulations, by a vote of 349 to 62.

WASHINGTON, DC (April 24, 2008) – This represents a veto-proof margin and a huge victory for moratoria supports.  It is now up to the Senate to act.  It is unlikely that the Senate will pass moratoria legislation as a stand-alone bill as the House did, but we will be working with Members to hopefully include moratoria on the Medicaid rehabilitative services, targeted case management, and school-based services regulations in the Iraq Supplemental Appropriations bill or a Medicare bill in the coming weeks.

ACCSES Releases POSITION PAPER on Determining Disability under the JWOD Act (Ability One Program)

WASHINGTON, DC (January 14, 2008) – ACCSES today announced that it released a position paper on Determining Disability under the JWOD Act (Ability One Program).  The paper includes seven recommendations, which can be reviewed online at www.accses.org.  READ MORE...