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Senate committee hears pleas for $5 million and a rate review after nursing‑home Medicaid cuts
Summary
Senate Finance heard testimony on SB 663, which would appropriate $5 million in general funds to nursing homes that experienced Medicaid rate cuts of more than 5% on Jan. 1 and direct HHS to convene a working group to review reimbursement methodology.
Sen. Cindy Rosenwald told the Senate Finance Committee she introduced SB 663 to address an "emergency in the nursing home sector" after substantial Medicaid reimbursement cuts earlier in the year. "Section 2 appropriates $5,000,000 of general funds for this fiscal year for the commissioner to pay out to nursing homes that experienced a rate cut of more than 5% on January 1," Rosenwald said, and she asked the committee to support the measure and convene a stakeholder working group to examine rate methodology.
Rosenwald said budget neutrality in the current rate methodology requires offsets that can force cuts for many facilities; she cited that 34 nursing homes — including 10 county facilities —…
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