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Providers warn Birth‑to‑3 program may collapse without immediate rate increases and gap payment
Summary
Multiple birth‑to‑3 agencies and early‑childhood advocates told the committee that stagnant rates, proposed tiering and the proposed elimination of the general administrative (gap) payment threaten programs that serve infants and toddlers with developmental delays.
Birth‑to‑3 providers, clinicians and parents urged the Appropriations Committee to accelerate funding and preserve the program’s administrative payment, saying the system is at a breaking point.
Several agencies reported recent closures and said two programs have folded in the past few years because they could not sustain operations under current reimbursement rates. Witnesses pointed to a state rate study showing an average cost to provide professional hours at $167 per hour, while the current professional rate…
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