Government and Legal Affairs

Please visit the Members Only Area for the most recent Legislative Report from our lobbyist.

FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: Senate passes Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act of 2008

New! 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Secure Net Access Portal (C-SNAP), a FREE self-service portal - your comprehensive, secured Website to be used as your primary Medicare information source for patient eligibility and claim status information.  Click here for more.

VOTE! Know your candidates. Ask these questions about your state candidates:

• What is their response to helping MEDICAID recipients and solving problems of the person not the budget?
• What are their concerns about health care and education and the environment and the older adult and children and poverty

Be INFORMED!
As an AOTA & MOTA active member, keep up with issues affecting Occupational Therapy practice and our patients / clients:

LOCALLY: Join the MADEN alert network at www.paraquad.org Sign up for MADEN "Take Action," and check out "public policy".
Latest issues: Ticket to Work, Voter ID, Medicaid Buy-in for People with Disabilities, DME, and Tobacco Tax Initiative.

NATIONALLY: Join the AOTA Grassroots Call to Action network at http://capwiz.com/aota/home; respond to immediate needs in Congree; keep up with the latest news through Call to Action Legislative Action Center; and sign up for Reimbursement Briefings.

Are you aware of AOTA's latest information about IDEA, statement of mental health practice, Medicare changes?

Do your State Representative and Senator know you?

Being an advocate means caring and taking action - one by one - one on one.

Knowing - Talking - Writing about Occupational Therapy and how lives are Changed

IF YOU DON'T, WHO WILL?

It's making the big ticket issues personal with your personal story - it's increasing the awareness of where and how Occupational Therapy practices - it's about people one person at a time

Be One of the Ones
Are you active in an advocacy group to improve the quality of life of your clients/patients or your community? Are you using your Occupational Therapy perspective to work towards providing a healthy environment for all to participate? YES? Good for you! Thank you.