- Target:
- CMS-Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
- Region:
- United States of America
Opposed to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule, file code CMS-2232-P, which allows states to eliminate non-emergency medical transportation as a benefit under Medicaid.
**Non-emergency medical transportation is essential in the delivery of healthcare to approximately 36 million Americans covered under Medicaid.
**The poor, mentally and physically disabled and elderly patients who often have barriers to health care will be unable to receive life sustaining health care treatments.
**Under this proposal, undeserved populations will have to pay for their own transportation to medically necessary health care services.
**Medicaid recipients often have physical or mental impediments that require specialized transportation that only non-emergency medical transportation providers can provide.
**Without non-emergency medical transportation, doctors, hospitals, and clinics will be unable to treat their patients when they need treatment.
**While states may try to cut costs by eliminating Medicaid non-emergency transportation benefits, states will in actuality be creating a disadvantaged population who will not have access to preventive care. In the long run, the costs to states will be huge as Medicaid patients will end up in expensive facility based care and hospital emergency rooms.
We hope you will consider our views and assist in stopping this proposed rule as it will cause the general destabilization of Medicaid healthcare services nationwide.
We the employees and clients of FMT & Transportation opposed to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) the proposed rule, file code CMS-2232-P, which allows states to eliminate non-emergency medical transportation as a benefit under Medicaid.
**Non-emergency medical transportation is essential in the delivery of healthcare to approximately 36 million Americans covered under Medicaid.
**The poor, mentally and physically disabled and elderly patients who often have barriers to health care will be unable to receive life sustaining health care treatments.
**Under this proposal, underserved populations will have to pay for their own transportation to medically necessary health care services.
**Medicaid recipients often have physical or mental impediments that require specialized transportation that only non-emergency medical transportation providers can provide.
**Without non-emergency medical transportation, doctors, hospitals, and clinics will be unable to treat their parients when they need treatment.
**While states may try to cut costs by eliminating Medicaid non-emergency transportation benefits, states will in actuality be creating a disadvantaged population who will not have access to preventive care. In the long run, the costs to states will be huge as Medicaid patients will end up in expensive facility based care and hospital emergency rooms.
We hope you will consider our views and assist in stopping this proposed rule as it will cause the general destabilization of Medicaid healthcare services nationwide.
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The Help to keep non-emergency medical transportation going petition to CMS-Centers for Medicare & Medicaid was written by Jennifer James-Cornett and is in the category Government at GoPetition.