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Human Services panel urges restoring residential care rates after Medicaid study cut reimbursements
Summary
House Human Services Chair Teresa Wood told Appropriations the committee recommends restoring tier-1 enhanced residential care rates to the FY25 level ($72.37/day) after an administrative implementation of the Medicaid rate study rolled up lower-level cuts that would have driven payments as low as roughly $47/day.
Teresa Wood, chair of the House Human Services Committee, told the House Appropriations Committee on Jan. 15 that the committee recommends restoring tier-1 enhanced residential care Medicaid rates to the FY25 level of $72.37 per day.
Wood said the administration's implementation of a recent Medicaid rate study "rolled up things" in a way that masked decreases at lower levels of the rate structure. She said the result would have been a dramatic reduction in payments for residential care providers: "to reduce it down to $47 a day is preposterous." The committee…
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