| Category | Title | Description |
| EMS Issue | Letter to CoAMSP Board of Directors | NAEMT provides comment on the most recent draft of the CAAHEP Standards and Guidelines for the Accreditation of Educational Programs in the Emergency Medical Services Professions. |
| EMS Funding | Letter to House and Senate Leaders | AAA, NAEMT joint letter requesting frontline responders to have the resources necessary to continue caring for our patients, while maintaining the long-term viability of our nation’s EMS system. |
| Pending Legislation | Letter to House and Senate leaders re: sequestration cuts | Requests additional Medicare funding for ground ambulance services to prevent further devastating sequestration cuts to health care providers from taking effect. |
| Proposed Legislation | Letter to CMS Administrator | Medicare Ground Ambulance Data Collection System |
| EMS Funding | Letter to CMS Administrator | Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part I |
| EMS Funding | Letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services | Requests HHS to distribute the remaining monies from the Provider Relief Fund to help offset costs due to pandemic response. |
| EMS Issue | Letter to NREMT Certification Committee | Joint comment from NAEMT, AHA and AAP regarding the 2022 NREMT recertification cycle |
| EMS Funding | NAEMT President Bruce Evans Written Testimony | FY2022 Appropriations - House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies. |
| Proposed Legislation | Letter to US House and Senate Transportation Committee leaders | Opposes legislation that would increase the legal size or weight limits of trucks because of the serious safety risks inherent in allowing bigger trucks on our nation’s roads and bridges. |
| EMS Issue | Letter to HHS Secretary | Requests the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure hospitals are complying with the infectious disease notification requirements under the Ryan White Act, including notification of exposure to COVID-19. |
| Pending Legislation | Joint letter to HHS Secretary | Urges HHS to expeditiously exercise the emergency waiver authority for ground ambulance services provided through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to reimburse ground ambulance providers for providing treatment in place (TIP) services. |
| EMS Funding | Letter to U.S Committee on Appropriations | Requests the Committee to provide $20 million in funding for the SIREN Grant Program for Fiscal Year FY 2022. |
| Pending Legislation | Letter to U.S. House and Senate Leaders | Expresses deep concern with the impending 2% Medicare sequestration cut scheduled to take effect on April 1, 2021. |
| EMS Funding | Letter to U.S. Senate and House leaders | Urges immediate passage of S.149 to remove a statutory barrier that has stopped ground ambulance service providers and suppliers from being reimbursed during the COVID-19 public health emergency for health care services they provide consistent with local EMS protocols. |
| EMS Funding | Letter to President Biden | EMS personnel, firefighters to support the vaccination efforts in your National Strategy for the COVID 19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness plan; provide reimbursement. |
| EMS Issue | Letter to Biden-Harris Transition Team | Provides insight into how to advance EMS at the federal level. |
| EMS Issue | Letter to EMS Standards Project Team | Provides comment on the final proposed revisions to the national EMS Education Standards. |
| Proposed Legislation | Drug Enforcement Administration Department of Justice | Comment on the “Emergency Medical Services Agencies Under the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2017” Proposed Rule. |
| EMS Funding | Letter to Biden-Harris Transition Team | Requests support for EMS and consistent, adequate funding to continue serving its critical purpose, both in the COVID-19 response and as an integral component of our nation’s healthcare system. |
| Pending Legislation | Comments on National Incident Management System Definitions | Comment to FEMA’s National Integration Center on four National Incident Management System (NIMS) resource typing definitions under the emergency medical services core capability: EMR, EMT, EMT-A, and Paramedic. |
| EMS Issue | Letter to The National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine | Comment on NASEM's draft framework to assist policymakers in planning for equitable allocation of a vaccine against COVID-19. |
| EMS Issue | Letter to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Office of EMS | Provides comment on the National 911 Program’s 911DataPath project. NAEMT supports the National 911 Program and feels strongly that adding EMS and healthcare into the mix of represented entities is an important next step in the evolution of the program’s mission and efforts. |
| Pending Legislation | Letter to Chair, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, CMS | Comments on COVID-19 vaccine recommendations. |
| EMS Issue | Letter to President, White House | Urges that firefighters and EMS personnel are placed on the highest priority tier for receiving COVID-19 vaccinations when they are available. |
| Pending Legislation | Letter to Senate HELP Committee | NAEMT Comments on Senate HELP: Preparing for the Next Pandemic White Paper |
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