The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized its decision to pay for cognitive and functional assessment and care planning for persons with cognitive impairment, as the Alzheimer's Association proposed and advocated for years through the HOPE for Alzheimer’s Act. The decision by CMS came following the rapidly growing support of advocates and Alzheimer's Association staff have generated for the HOPE Act in Congress this year, with the inclusion of the provision in the funding bill passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee. Please click here for a press release with additional details.
Also, I thought I would share with you information about dementia in California. Please click here for our 2017 Know the Facts flyer.
Posted on behalf of Donna K Beal, MPH, MCHES, Vice President of Program Services and Advocacy
Alzheimer's Association California Central Chapter
