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Long-term care providers urge rate increases, ask to include home-based services in FY26 budget
Summary
Representatives of long-term care providers, home-health agencies and the Long Term Care Crisis Coalition told the Senate Health & Welfare Committee they need higher Medicaid rates and inclusion of adult day and skilled home health services in rate adjustments.
Nursing homes, home-health agencies and community-based long-term service providers pressed the Vermont Senate Health & Welfare Committee on Monday to increase Medicaid reimbursement and expand rate adjustments to services not fully covered by the House budget.
Several witnesses said the House's funding would move many services partway toward the 2023 rate-study recommendations but left gaps. Jill Nazareth Olsen, executive director of VNAs of Vermont, said the House adds “about two thirds” of the money the field requested…
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