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Lawmakers press agency on whether rate increases reached direct-care workers as Medicaid home-care demand grows
Summary
Committee members asked how recent rate increases and hospital assessment funding have affected pay for direct-care staff and how program changes — including suspension of family personal care services and work on a new resource allocation tool tied to the KW settlement — will affect access to home- and community-based services
Lawmakers pressed Department of Health and Welfare officials Feb. 26 for more information about whether recent provider rate increases and assessment-driven funds have flowed to direct-care workers in home- and community-based services (HCBS), and what the department is doing to track that flow.
Juliette Sharon, the department’s deputy director, told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee the legislature has invested significantly in community-based services over recent years, but the department’s audits showed only a portion of provider revenue increases had reached direct-care staff. Sharon said…
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