Home Health Care News February 25, 2025
Leaders with Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) are closely watching the potential changes to the Medicaid program being discussed by the new administration and Congress.
Addus CEO Dirk Allison pointed out a wide variety of potential areas that have been identified to reduce federal spending on Medicaid, including per capita caps lowering of the FMAP floor, penalties related to coverage of undocumented immigrants, limiting Medicaid provider taxes, and more.
“The aggregate federal savings of this list, if implemented, could be as high as $2.3 trillion over a 10-year period of time,” Allison said on Tuesday during Addus’ fourth quarter earnings call. “However, it is believed that a number of these items on the list cannot be implemented concurrently. Also, the...