09/16/2025
Please take time to contact Congress. Our mission is to take care of our residents in their own homes. Home Health has been cut to the point that many agencies have had to shut their doors. We need your help to keep our agency going. Fight for your right to get home care.
Protect Home Health Care – Tell Congress to Support H.R. 5142
CMS’ proposed 9% cut to home health threatens to push an already strained system past the breaking point. Providers are battling negative margins, skyrocketing costs, and chronic staffing shortages - this cut would only deepen the crisis. Patients who are denied access to home health care face significantly worse health outcomes, despite strong evidence that home health leads to better results, respects patients' wishes to age in place, and lowers overall healthcare spending.
Now is the time to act! We must urge Congress to reject this harmful cut and protect access to the high-quality, cost-effective home care that millions of older adults rely on every day. Ask your Congressional Representative to sign on to H.R.5142 which will pause CMS' home health cuts for 2 years.
Action Needed: Contact Your Elected Official
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Representatives (Don’t Know Who Your Representative Is? Click Here to Find Out)
• (1st District) Representative Wesley Bell
• (2nd District) Representative Ann Wagner
• (3rd District) Representative Bob Onder
• (4th District) Representative Mark Alford
• (5th District) Representative Emanuel Cleaver
• (6th District) Representative Sam Graves
• (7th District) Representative Eric Burlison
• (8th District) Representative Jason Smith
Message:
As your constituent, I’m writing to urge you to take immediate action to protect access to home health care by opposing the CY 2026 Home Health Proposed Rule. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a 9% cut to Medicare home health services, a move that would severely impact access to lifesaving home-based care, while failing to fix real issues in the system, like fraud, waste, and abuse. Home health providers are already under immense pressure from negative margins, rising operational costs, and workforce shortages. These cuts would only deepen the crisis, forcing more agencies to close their doors and leaving patients without critical support.
I respectfully ask that you oppose CMS’ proposed rule and call on the agency to rescind these cuts. In addition, I strongly encourage you to cosponsor H.R. 5142, the Home Health Stabilization Act of 2025, introduced by Representatives Kevin Hern and Terri Sewell. This legislation would pause the cuts for two years and provide much-needed stability to a system already in crisis.
This is about protecting lifesaving care for millions of Americans. When home health agencies shut down and people can’t get care where they live, more end up in emergency rooms or back in hospitals, resulting in higher costs and worse patient outcomes.
Protecting home health care is not just a policy issue, it is a critical lifeline for your constituents. It improves patient outcomes, reduces hospitalizations, supports aging in place, and saves the healthcare system money. Now is not the time to undermine it. I urge you to stand up for patients, families, and providers in your district by opposing the CY 2026 rule and supporting H.R. 5142.
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