Home Health Care News April 22, 2024
The “Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services” rule has been finalized.
Most importantly, the bemoaned “80-20” provision has gone through as proposed, meaning providers will eventually be forced to direct 80% of reimbursement for home- and community-based services (HCBS) to caregiver wages.
First proposed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in April 2023, the goal of the rule is to enhance access to HCBS for Medicaid beneficiaries. Allocating 80% of reimbursement for wages would help ensure better access, CMS believes, by raising wages for direct care workers.
“The ‘Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services’ final rule, finalized today, will help improve access to home care services as well as improve the quality caregiving jobs through its...
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