STOP MEDICARE FROM LIMITING ACCESS TO LIFE-AND-LIMB-SAVING WOUND CARE THERAPY
Make your voice heard – Write to Congress today
What Medicare Is Proposing
And Why It Matters
For many Americans, wound care therapy made possible by Medicare reimbursements means the difference between life and death. Those reimbursements are now the target of Medicare contractors more interested in saving money than they are in saving lives.
As currently proposed, the policy [known as the Local Coverage Determination (LCD) “Skin Substitute Grafts/Cellular and Tissue-Based Products for the Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Venous Leg Ulcers.”] would drastically affect the care provided to patients in the future, and result in treatment that falls glaringly short of clinical standards.
Eliminating coverage of over 200 skin substitute products, this arbitrary and inconsistent proposal would immediately trigger a shortage, leaving tens of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without treatment and facing sepsis, amputation, and ultimately death.
Protect, Preserve, Prevent.
Stop Medicare From Limiting Access To Wound Care Therapy
Making our voices heard is imperative in the fight to support the lives this decision would put at-risk.
It’s simple - the effort by policy makers to create a “one size fits all” treatment plan is wrong. Dictating treatment plans to patients and doctors while limiting access to limb-saving treatments is an overstep of Medicare’s responsibilities.
Protect Your Constituents
Make Medicare Save More Than Money .
Defend the millions of Americans affected by this decision. Protect your constituents by supporting the protection of vital Medicare reimbursements for life-saving skin substitutes.
Let Congress know that policy decisions that save lives – and families – deserve protection. Because healing isn’t political.
It’s personal.