McKnight’s Senior Living April 16, 2024
A proposed federal rule establishing mandatory quality measures for home- and community-based services and requiring providers to allocate 80% of HCBS payments to direct care worker pay is one step closer to being finalized.
The White House Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has completed its review of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’s so-called Medicaid Access Rule, according to the agency’s website.
The review, which began in January, was completed yesterday. No further details were available, but CMS has indicated that it plans to issue a final rule this month.
The federal agency said that the rule is meant to “support and stabilize the direct care workforce” in home- and community-based settings, but...
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