McKnight’s Senior Living April 17, 2024
Senior living providers in Wisconsin are asking lawmakers to act on a proposal to take advantage of a “once-in-a-lifetime” funding opportunity for its Medicaid home- and community-based services programs.
Last week, the legislative Joint Committee on Finance, or JFC, pumped the brakes on a $258 million proposal from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to invest federal American Rescue Plan Act dollars into the state’s Medicaid HCBS program, Family Care.
DHS proposed setting a minimum Medicaid fee schedule for providers that managed care organizations would be required to pay. Those fee increases — $258 million in the first year — would be funded through ARPA dollars. The state’s annual cost after that first year would be $106 million.
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