Home Health Care News April 23, 2024
On Tuesday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officials vehemently backed the thought process behind the “80-20” wage mandate in home- and community-based services (HCBS). Providers and advocates, on the other hand, continued to argue that the policy could be disastrous.
During a press call Tuesday, CMS stuck with the theme that, in general, the status quo in Medicaid needed to be disrupted.
“[These rules] will change for the better how tens of millions of Americans receive care,” Daniel Tsai, the deputy administrator and director of Center for Medicaid and CHIP services at the CMS, said on the call. “I was just on [a call] with stakeholders earlier, and somebody described the set of rules here as ‘disrupting the...
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