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Developmental‑disability providers request rate relief, accreditation funding and specialty‑hospital licensing for medically complex patients
Summary
Anne Carlson and DD providers told appropriators that serving medically complex people in intermediate care facilities (ICFs) has produced operating losses and asked for funding to cover past losses, a rate pathway while converting to a specialty hospital license, plus inflationary increases and accreditation support for DD providers.
BISMARCK — Leaders of intermediate care facility (ICF) services and community DD providers asked the committee for supplemental funding and policy changes to reflect rising costs serving medically and behaviorally complex people with developmental disabilities.
Why it matters: Providers said wages, contract staffing and complex medical care drove operating losses at Anne Carlson’s ICF program. They urged a specialty hospital license to align reimbursement with the complexity of care and asked for interim funds while licensing transitions occur. Community DD providers asked for higher inflationary increases and…
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