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RCPA held a golf fundraiser for the Rehabilitation and Community Providers Association Political Action Committee (RCPA PAC) on Monday, October 10, 2022. This event raised much-needed funds for the RCPA PAC. We would like to thank all the generous golfers who participated in this event and contributed. In addition, we would like to thank our sponsors who made this event possible:

Tournament Sponsor:

  • Erie County Care Management, Inc.

Lunch Sponsors:

  • Brier Dlugolecki Strategies
  • Beacon Health Options

Beverage Cart Sponsor:

  • Novak Strategic Advisors

Hole and Prize Sponsors:

  • Ceisler Media & Issue Advocacy
  • Christopher S. Lucas & Associates
  • Firetree, Ltd.
  • Fulton Bank
  • Hearten Workers’ Compensation Program
  • PCPA Workers’ Compensation Group Self-Insurance Trust
  • Pinnacle Treatment Centers, Inc.
  • Qualifacts
  • RHA Health Services (previously Salisbury Behavioral Health)
  • Step By Step, Inc.
  • Threshold Rehabilitation Services, Inc.
  • Wojdak Government Relations

Your support of this event is greatly appreciated. Thank you again for your participation and contributions. If you are interested in learning more about RCPA PAC or donating, please visit our website or email Jack Phillips, Director of Government Affairs. We encourage you to make a personal contribution to RCPA PAC. For your convenience, you can now make an online contribution.

Your participation in the RCPA-PAC is completely voluntary, and you may contribute as much or as little as you choose. Donations are not tax-deductible and will be used for political purposes. You may choose not to participate without fear of reprisal. You will not be favored or disadvantaged by reason of the amount of your contribution or decision not to contribute.

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RCPA would like to thank all the Silent Auction donors who participated in donating items for this successful event, which was held at the RCPA Annual Conference last week. This event raised much-needed funds for the RCPA PAC.

Congratulation to the winners, and many thanks to the following donors. Their donations and support have made this event a huge success:

  • CHOR Youth & Family Services
  • Community Services Group
  • Consulting for Human Services, LLC
  • Corporate Benefits Consultants, Inc.
  • Firetree, Ltd.
  • Greenspace Health
  • Hershey Resorts
  • Hope Enterprises, Inc. and Dauphin Highlands Golf Course
  • Horizon House, Inc.
  • Journey Health System and Angela and Richard Chew
  • Mission Driven Data
  • Progressive Workshop of Armstrong County, Inc.
  • Pyramid Healthcare, Inc.
  • Richard and Rita Edley
  • Scranton Counseling Center
  • Success Rehabilitation, Inc.
  • Terrapin Pharmacy
  • Tina Miletic
  • UPMC Western Behavioral Health Community Network
  • Venango Training and Development Center
  • Via of the Lehigh Valley
  • Willetts Tech
  • ZMark Health

Thank you again for your participation and contributions. If you are interested in learning more about RCPA PAC or donating, please visit our website or email Jack Phillips, Director of Government Affairs. We encourage you to make a personal contribution to RCPA PAC. For your convenience, you can now make an online contribution.

Your participation in the RCPA-PAC is completely voluntary, and you may contribute as much or as little as you choose. Donations are not tax-deductible and will be used for political purposes. You may choose not to participate without fear of reprisal. You will not be favored or disadvantaged by reason of the amount of your contribution or decision not to contribute.

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The Rehabilitation and Community Providers Association Political Action Committee (RCPA PAC) is asking members to consider making a personal contribution. With these donations, we are able to provide financial support to state legislators or representatives who have demonstrated a strong, consistent, and positive interest in our legislative priorities.

With support of the RCPA PAC, we have been successful in supporting legislative leadership who understand the severe challenges facing many of our providers and who are willing to stand up for our issues as we fight to move Pennsylvania forward. Recent efforts we have closely followed include:

  • The passage of Act 25 of 2018;
  • Testifying at numerous House and Senate Committee meetings on gun violence, autism, community participation, and other issues affecting RCPA members; and
  • Assisting with language for the 2021/22 fiscal budget to delay the implementation of ASAM requirements on drug and alcohol providers.

As we move into a new legislative year, efforts are now underway in multiple areas, including:

  • Advocating the General Assembly to release federal funding that they placed in reserve for direct care workers (see RCPA media campaign);
  • Drafting legislation to eliminate prudent pay for IDD providers;
  • Working with legislative leaders and family advocates for children and adults with severe autism;
  • Working with House and Senate leadership on rate increases for brain injury providers;
  • Providing information to House and Senate leadership regarding how Drug and Alcohol Opioid Settlement Funds allocations should be distributed to drug and alcohol providers;
  • Advocating the Governor/General Assembly and collaborating with the County Commissioners Association of PA (CCAP) and the Hospital Association of PA (HAP), as well as other organizations, to increase County Mental Health Funding;
  • Working with legislators to Amend Act 25 of 2018, which RCPA helped draft, by introducing new legislation regarding outpatient psychiatric issues (HB 2294);
  • Assisting legislative staff with their constituent issues regarding human services issues, such as consumer placements for services; and
  • Advocating legislators and staff on rate transparency.

We urgently need your support to continue with these ambitious projects. While the request is voluntary, we encourage you to make a contribution of $100, $250, $350, $500 or more to RCPA PAC. For your convenience, you can now make an online contribution.

Thank you for your participation and support. If you are interested in learning more about RCPA PAC or donating, please visit our website, download the PAC FAQ Card, Donation Card, or email Jack Phillips, Director of Government Affairs.

Your participation in the RCPA-PAC is completely voluntary, and you may contribute as much or as little as you choose. Donations are not tax-deductible and will be used for political purposes. You may choose not to participate without fear of reprisal. You will not be favored or disadvantaged by reason of the amount of your contribution or decision not to contribute.

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The Medicare Payment Advisory Committee (MedPAC) voted last week and unanimously recommended a five percent payment reduction for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), and home health agencies (HHAs). There was no additional feedback provided with this recommendation; however, additional information should be provided in their upcoming March 2022 report to Congress.

Also worth noting was that MedPAC discussed its mandated report related to designing a value incentive program (VIP) for post-acute care (PAC). This report is required under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, and this was the commission’s second session dedicated to development of the PAC VIP. The report is due to Congress by March 15, 2022. Due to the limited time to develop the report, MedPAC asserted it would not be making a formal recommendation in the March Report to Congress. Also during this session, MedPAC shared its plan to submit its separate report on a unified post-acute care payment prototype to Congress in 2023.

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