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Committee hears $56 million FY25 budget adjustment request tied to long-term care, nursing facility utilization and worker wage policy
Summary
Committee members reviewed a fiscal-year-25 budget adjustment tied to increased skilled nursing utilization, collective bargaining wage increases for direct support professionals, and concerns about residential care closures shifting people into higher-cost nursing homes.
The committee discussed a fiscal-year-25 budget adjustment request that staff described as one of the largest line items in the current supplement: roughly $56 million tied to long-term care and disability services.
Committee members heard that the package reflects three drivers: increased days of care in skilled nursing facilities, collective-bargaining wage and bonus provisions for direct support professionals, and other utilization changes across developmental and residential services. Committee members said the single-year true-up is largely a response to actual utilization exceeding the amounts…
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