Taking to Policymakers
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State Medicaid Contacts
Listing of state Medicaid Directors
2024 State Pediatric Legislation Under Consideration
Perinatal Hospice / Perinatal Palliative Care
Pediatric Hospice / Pediatric Palliative Care
- No current legislation outstanding at this time
General Hospice
Bereavement
- NJ A3505 / NJ S2978 – Concerns bereavement leave for death of child, miscarriage, stillbirth, and certain other circumstances.
- NJ S1782 / NJ A2774– Requires certain hospitals to establish bereavement areas.
- NJ A3816 / NJ S621– Concerns bereavement leave for miscarriage and stillbirth.
- NJ A2009 – Concerns worker leave and bereavement.
- NJ AJR93 – Designates May 6 of each year as “Visiting Nurse Association Day.”
- NJ A03737 / NJ S04259– Relates to paid family leave and bereavement for fetal death, still birth, and an infant being medically not viable to survive.
Caregivers Compensation
- NJ A3451 – Revises law concerning family leave to extend protection by reducing, over time, employee threshold from 30 employees to five employees in definition of employer
- NJ A623 / NJ S1070 – Concerns temporary disability insurance and family leave insurance benefits
- NJ A3505 / NJ SB2978 – Concerns bereavement leave for death of child, miscarriage, stillbirth, and certain other circumstances
- NJ SB1661 / NJ A945 – Prohibits payment to public employees at retirement for certain unused sick leave, provides for forfeiture of payment for unused sick leave for certain criminal convictions, and requires documentation for use of sick leave
- US SB3680 – Paid Family and Medical Leave Tax Credit Extension and Enhancement Act
Eligibility – Hospice, Palliative Care, and Related
- No current legislation outstanding at this time
Elimination of Hospice or Related Certificate of Needs (impacts rural kids)
- No current legislation outstanding at this time
Establishment / Capacity Management – Hospice, Palliative Care, and Related
- No current legislation outstanding at this time
Exemptions or Exceptions – Hospice, Palliative Care, and Related
- No current legislation outstanding at this time
Financials – Hospice, Palliative Care, and Related
- NJ S378 – Provides for certain group home licensees to obtain Medicaid reimbursement for reservation of beds used by residents on therapeutic leave
Miscellaneous – Hospice, Palliative Care, and Related
- NJ AJR27 – Designates November each year as “Hospice and Palliative Care Awareness Month”
Prescribing / Dispensing / Administering Medication(s) – Hospice, Palliative Care, and Related
- NJ S2392 – Authorizes medical cannabis for treatment of sickle cell anemia
Staffing – Hospice, Palliative Care and Related
- No current legislation outstanding at this time
Other – Hospice, Palliative Care and Related
- No current legislation outstanding at this time
Make-a-Plan Campaign
The 2020 make-a-plan campaign was designed to prepare if Concurrent Care for Children was struck down by the US Supreme Court. ACA, Section 2302 in a short but defining provision within the ACA that has dramatically altered continued access to critical medical services for children in hospice. This was a coordinated response among clinicians, policymakers, and researchers to generate solidarity in messaging that underscored the impact of Concurrent Care for Children.