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Committee hears calls to overhaul MassHealth rate-setting for home health and home care
Summary
Providers and industry groups backed H767/S870 to require transparency and updated methodology for MassHealth home health and home care rate-setting, linking inadequate rates to workforce shortages and delayed discharges from hospitals.
BOSTON — Home health and home care providers told the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing on Wednesday that an opaque and outdated MassHealth rate-setting process is a leading cause of staffing shortages that leave thousands waiting for in-home services.
“Home care services are a vital and growing part of the health care delivery system,” said Harrison Collins, director of legislative and public affairs at the Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts. He told the committee agencies are turning down referrals because they cannot hire enough workers and that delayed discharges from hospitals are…
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