Georgia House Approves Medicaid Rate Increase in 2023 Budget, Senate Introduces Bill to Study Rates3/16/2022 Last week, the Georgia House of Representatives approved HB 911, the SFY 2023 Budget. This House-approved budget includes $1,994,623 in state funds ($5,906,494 in total funds) to increase the Medicaid Elderly and Disabled reimbursement rate for all home and community-based providers. The HCAOA Georgia Chapter had originally submitted an ask for a 3.0% rate increase at a meeting of the House Appropriations Health Subcommittee. Our testimony was one of more than twenty requests for funding above the original Governor’s budget, requests that in total created more than $150 million in additional requests for budget funding. As a result of these many requests, we were advised to reduce our ask and direct its intent to cover the costs of fingerprinting that was added as a regulatory requirement in 2019. That change was made, and our ask was resubmitted and eventually included in the budget.
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Two bills of interest to the home care industry are progressing through the Georgia legislature this week:
Legislative, Regulatory, Operations Updates on Agenda for Georgia Chapter Meeting on March 241/26/2022 This meeting WILL fill up, so be sure to reserve your spot now to guarantee a seat for the HCAOA Georgia Chapter Meeting on Thursday, March 24 at the Georgian Terrace Hotel in Atlanta. The Georgia Chapter leadership team is still finalizing the agenda, but you can be sure it will include updates from top state legislative leaders, federal information from HCAOA national, regulatory and Medicaid updates from state officials, and resources to help your run your business from national experts.
A reminder that as of November 1, 2021, all providers of Personal Support Services (PSS) or Community Living Supports (CLS) through SOURCE, CCSP, NOW, COMP, ICWP, and / or GAPP should be regularly using EVV and submitting claims through the State EVV solution, Netsmart. The Georgia Department of Community Health reminds providers that there are three exceptions to the November 1 deadline: The HCAOA Georgia Chapter learned last week from DCH that the 10% Medicaid rate increase has received a preliminary approval pending a CMS request to conduct a rate study. DCH is working on preparing the strategy for the rate study and will be involving providers in the rate study. In the interim, DCH is working with CMS to get approval to go ahead with the rate increase while the rate study proceeds. The HCAOA Georgia Chapter realizes that our Medicaid providers need this rate increase to cover the shortfalls since the last PSS rate increase in October 2014. Stay tuned for updates.
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