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Providers warn of liability‑insurance crisis and rate shortfalls for foster‑care services
Summary
The Washington Association for Children and Families and member agencies told the committee that rising liability and health‑insurance costs, low reimbursement rates and shrinking insurer participation threaten the stability of child‑placing agencies and foster‑care providers.
Jill May, executive director of the Washington Association for Children and Families, told the committee that provider agencies face an urgent mix of rising insurance costs and reimbursement rates that do not cover actual expenses.
May said agencies are reimbursed at levels that fall well short of current costs. She gave two examples: a health‑insurance reimbursement rate of roughly $42,100 per person versus an average actual cost of about $88,100, and liability insurance costs that now average around…
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