2008 State & National Legislative News

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• Michigan Becomes 48th State to Pass SLP Licensure Legislation (12/22/2008)
• ED Releases IDEA Part B Supplemental Final Regulations (12/03/2008)
• 2009 Medicare Fee Schedule Includes SLP Private Practice Regulations (11/17/2008)
• Analysis of 2009 Medicare Fee Schedule for Audiologists Available (11/17/2008)
• Votes Have Been Cast – Now The Real Work Begins! (11/06/2008)
• ED Releases Notice of Final Interpretations for English Language Proficiency (11/06/2008)
• ED Releases Final Regulations on NCLB Title 1 (11/06/2008)
• ASHA Prepares for New Congress and Administration with 2009 Public Policy Agenda (10/30/08)
• Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Examiners Hold Annual Meeting (10/29/08)
• ASHA Submits Comments to ED on Implementation of Higher Education Act (10/21/2008)
• ASHA Members Needed to Speak at HEA Public Meetings (09/17/2008)
• ED Extends Application Deadlines for FY09 Personnel Preparation Competitions (09/15/2008)
• ED Holds 2008 OSEP Leadership Conference (09/15/2008)
• ED Begins Process of Implementing the HEA Reauthorization - Public Meetings Scheduled (09/02/2008)
• ASHA President Testifies Before ICDR (08/27/2008)
• ASHA Conducting Physician Practice Information Survey for Audiology (08/27/2008)
• HHS Announces Adoption of ICD-10 Beginning October 2011 (08/19/08)
• Medicare and Medicaid to Update Electronic Transaction Standards (08/19/08)
• ED Awards 31 FY2008 Early Reading First Grants (08/18/2008)
• ED Announces States Participating in Supplemental Educational Services Pilot (08/18/2008)
• ASHA's Functional Communication Measures Receive Quality Endorsement (08/05/2008)
• Medicare Announces More Accurate Payments for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (08/05/2008)
• New Federal Loan Forgiveness for School SLPs and Audiologists (08/01/2008)
• Educational Audiologists Included in Higher Education Bill For Loan Forgiveness (08/01/2008)
• Waiving Retroactive Beneficiary Cost Sharing Due to Increases in Payment Under MIPPA (07/29/2008)
• Audiology Medicare Enrollment and NPI Requirement Deadline Nearing – October 1 (07/29/2008)
• IES Schedules Four Research Funding Webinars in August (07/23/2008)
• Preliminary FAQs on Medicare SLP Private Practice Available (07/22/2008)
• ASHA Meets OSERS Assistant Secretary (07/21/2008)
• ASHA Submits Comments to ED on IDEA Supplemental Proposed Rules (07/21/2008)
• Therapy Caps Exceptions Process Reinstituted (07/17/2008)
• New 2008 Medicare Fee Schedule Rates for Services July 1 to End of 2008 (07/16/2008)
• Congress Overrides Presidential Veto to Pass Medicare Relief Legislation (07/16/2008)
• Urge Your Senators to Override Expected Veto on Medicare Bill (07/11/2008)
• Congress Passes Medicare Relief Legislation (07/10/2008)
• ED Announces FY2008 IDEA Discretionary Grant Competitions (07/09/2008)
• Medicare Therapy Caps Resume July 1, 2008 (07/01/2008)
• Medicare to Hold Part B Claims for First 10 Days of July (06/30/2008)
• Consideration of FY2009 Labor-HHS-Education Funding Bill Stalls in House (06/27/2008)
• ALERT: Medicare Fee Schedule Cuts & Therapy Caps to Resume on July 1 (06/27/2008)
• AMA and ASHA Physician Practice Information Survey Going Strong (06/27/2008)
• House Subcommittee Passes Health and Education 2009 Funding Bill (06/25/2008)
• ASHA Submits Comments to ED on NCLB Proposed Rules (06/23/2008)
• Senate Finance Members Introduce Competing Medicare Fix Bills (06/12/2008)
• Draft Senate Medicare Legislation Proposed (06/04/2008)
• Better Hearing & Speech Month Resolutions Introduced in Congress (05/28/2008)
• New Medicare Speech-Language Pathology Rules Published (05/28/2008)
• 2009 Defense Bill Requests Center of Excellence for Auditory Disorders (05/27/2008)
• ED Announces List of Full Applicants for FY2008 ERF Competition (05/21/2008)
• ED Releases IDEA Part B Supplemental Proposed Rules (05/21/2008)
• ED Announces Teacher-to-Teacher 2008 Summer Workshops (05/20/2008)
• Reading First Impact Study: Interim Report (05/15/2008)
• ED Releases Proposed NCLB Regulations: Schedule of Regional Input Meetings (05/01/2008)
• The NPI Is Here. The NPI Is Now. Are You Using It? (04/28/2008)
• Medicare Proposes FY2009 Payment Update for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (04/24/2008)
• Comments Sought on Revised Draft of EHDI State Model Bill (04/24/2008)
• CMS Extends Deadline for Use of Audiology NPI by Physician Practices (04/17/2008)
• EHDI Reauthorization Bill Passes House, Senate Advocacy Requested (04/10/2008)
• OPM Urges Enhanced Adult Benefit Coverage of Hearing Aids and SGDs (04/03/2008)
• ASHA Launches New Outreach Model with States (03/24/2008)
• ED Announces New Pilot on Differentiated Accountability (03/24/2008)
• EHDI Reauthorization Bill Clears House Committee (03/24/2008)
• House and Senate Approve Budget Resolutions (03/20/2008)
• House Committee Approves TBI Legislation (03/17/2008)
  Premera Blue Cross Rescinds Exclusion Policy on SGD/AACs for Autism (03/12/2008)
• Medicare Updates Audiology Coverage Policies (03/10/2008)
• Action Alert: Co-Sponsors Needed for EHDI Act (02/27/2008)
• Audiologist Loan Forgiveness Included in House Higher Education Bill (02/26/2008)
• New IDEA Part B Proposed Regulations Undergoing OMB Review (02/26/2008)
• ASHA Conducting Physician Practice Information Survey for Audiology (02/15/2008)
• House Passes Higher Education Bill, Goes to Conference with Senate (02/11/2008)
• CMS Proposes Bump in Medicare Payments to Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals (02/08/2008)
• ASHA Meets ED on Implementation of IDEA Regulations (01/30/2008)
• ED Expands Growth Model (01/23/2008)
• ED Opens FY2008 Early Reading First Grant Competition (01/09/2008)