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Georgia House Approves Medicaid Rate Increase in 2023 Budget, Senate Introduces Bill to Study Rates

3/16/2022

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​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.
During the approval process for last year’s Medicaid rate increase, the Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) was asked by CMS to undertake a reimbursement rate study of home & community-based services in the impacted waiver programs. Last week, SB 610 was introduced in the Georgia Senate, which requires that DCH conduct a “comprehensive review of provider reimbursement rates for home and community-based services covered by the waiver programs.”
 
Other details on SB 610 include:
  • The reimbursement rate studies will begin no later than SFY 2024 and be conducted at least every three (3) years thereafter. 
  • The legislation provides for input from the public, service providers, and other stakeholders.
  • The legislation also provides for proposed rate models and estimated fiscal impact.
  • The waiver programs covered include the following:
    • NOW - New Options Waiver
    • COMP - Comprehensive Supports Waiver Program
    • ICWP - Independent Care Waiver Program
    • EDWP - Elderly and Disabled Waiver Program (CCSP & SOURCE)
  • As a result of the review of the various program reimbursement rates, DCH will be required to develop proposed rate models, related documentation, and associated policy changes to the policies and procedures of each waiver program.
 
This proposed legislation addresses needed reimbursement rate studies to address the continuing increases in the cost of delivering services to Georgians. The HCAOA Georgia Chapter is supportive of these much-needed studies. As SB 610 proceeds through the legislative process, we will be asking that the Georgia Pediatric Program (GAPP) is also included in this rate study legislation to assure that all Medicaid waiver programs receive parity in reimbursement rates.
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Jordan Dagley
10/18/2023 11:35:10 pm

After being in private duty home care in the state of Georgia I can attest to the need for higher Medicaid reimbursement rates. Even though we were not a non profit company I don’t see how a company could pay it’s over head and labor costs to afford to take on Medicaid patients in much need under served areas. It was hard working in Chatham County not being able to serve a good portion of the population due to unaffordability. It is much less expensive to provide home care even if a cap was set on how many days and hours they are allotted do to misuse.

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