ARIZONA: Urge Legislators to Support Medicaid Rate Increase for Home Care

It is critical that the Arizona Legislature hear from the Elderly and Physically Disabled (EPD) home and community-based services industry in support of additional direct care workforce funding. In order to keep up with demand and ensure industry wages rise to levels sufficient to recruit and retain direct care workers, the HCAOA Arizona Chapter is teaming up with the Elderly and Physically Disabled Provider Alliance (EPDPA) to request consideration of a minimum of $15 million total ongoing state general fund investment for EPD ALTCS services for FY 2022. In total, the EPD Long Term Care system requires an investment of $30 million in the upcoming fiscal year to restore reimbursement rates to levels equal to those in place prior to the Great Recession. read more 

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