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Families and providers urge House Ways and Means to preserve home‑health rate protections in FSSA bill SB 275
Summary
Dozens of families, nurses and home‑health agencies told the House Ways and Means Committee that removing a statutory prohibition on cutting home‑health reimbursement (section 5) in SB 275 would worsen staffing shortages and force medically fragile Hoosiers into hospitals and nursing homes. FSSA said the change is intended to standardize rate methodology, not to impose cuts.
Dozens of families, nurses and home‑health agencies urged the Indiana House Ways and Means Committee to preserve a statutory protection that prevents the Family and Social Services Administration from reducing home‑health reimbursement rates.
The testimony came during a hearing on SB 275, an FSSA bill that contains many provisions — including language that would remove the current prohibition on cutting home‑health rates and changes to estate‑recovery deadlines and notice periods for facility rate changes. "Striking that language seems clear to me will lead to reduction rates for home health services," Dr. Gabriel Boslett, a pulmonary and critical‑care physician who represents the Good Trouble Coalition, told the committee.
Why it matters: Providers and family caregivers argued that unpredictable or lower reimbursement would worsen already steep turnover in home‑health staffing, reduce access to skilled nursing in the community and push people into far more expensive institutional care. "If reimbursement rates are reduced, more nurses will leave the home‑health field for higher‑paying hospital…
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