Home Health Care News September 19, 2025
On Thursday, the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) unveiled a draft recommendation calling for states to ramp up data reporting on hourly wages for home and community-based services (HCBS) workers – a proposal that drew criticism from the National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance).
MACPAC’s drafted recommendation would increase administrative burden on HCBS providers, the Alliance said.
Specifically, the draft recommended that the Secretary of Health and Human Services instruct the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to require states to report biannual data on hourly wages for HCBS workers providing services such as personal care, home health aide, homemaker and habilitation. The reports should include statistical details such as mean, median and range,...
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