Provider Agreements: A Measure Of Devotion….

November, 11, 2015, Washington, D.C.—Good morning, ProviderNation. It’s Veterans’ Day. You can be stoic about it, if you like, or even mournfully hostile to the day’s enterprise, but let us agree that the duty laid upon us by the mighty and humane 16^th president—“to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan”—is one (subject to the occasional, and ambivalent, toggling between masculine and feminine pronouns) that each generation knows it can neither shirk nor ever discharge fully.

With that in mind, provider advocates can take some cheer in the fact that legislation that would make it easier for them to offer top-quality care to the nation’s vets is slowly working its way to becoming law. Senate bill 2000, the Veterans Access to Long Term Care and Health Services Act, has already had two readings and is now in the Committee on Veterans Affairs.

The bill would make it easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs to sign provider agreements with long term and post-acute care centers without all the baggage of making the care centers full-on government contractors.

To read the full blog posting by Provider’s senior editor, Bill Myers, please click here.