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State budget targets pay boost for participant‑directed direct care workers
Summary
In the governor—s proposed budget, Pennsylvania would increase Medicaid rates for participant‑directed direct care workers—an effort the Department of Human Services says will send more money directly to those 8,500 workers who are hired and managed by the people they care for.
HARRISBURG — The Department of Human Services told lawmakers that the governor—s budget focuses a wage increase this year on direct care workers in participant‑directed programs so the pay reaches workers who are hired and managed directly by people receiving services.
Secretary Acush described participant direction as a model in which "the employer is actually the individual receiving services," and said the administration proposed a rate increase that applies to the roughly 8,500 workers in that program.
The department says the state cost to fund…
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