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 This Week at CT Healthcare At Home
Federal Legislative UpdateThe Association and its members took advantage of several public hearing opportunities this week to advocate for our priorities for Medicaid funding, fair and reasonable safety mandates for direct care workers, and appropriate training standards for Homemaker-Companion Agencies.
Here are the highlights:
News UpdateSource: Alliance Daily, March 6, 2025
Nothing is more important to the National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance) than our advocacy efforts and fighting every day to promote and defend the right of Americans to high quality healthcare and personal services in their own homes and communities.
The Board of Directors of the Alliance has approved the 2025 Policy Agenda and the 2025 Policy Priorities and you can find them both on the Alliance advocacy resources page.
While you’re learning more about what the Alliance is fighting for, we’d love it if you became an advocate, too. Nothing is more important to our elected officials than hearing from their own constituents, and nobody has a better story to tell than you do about how to delivery the best possible care to people in the place they want to receive it. JOIN US.
Source: McKnights Home Care, March 10, 2025
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week rescinded guidance that helped states apply for Medicaid funding to support individuals’ health-related social needs (HRSN). While this action may help rein in government spending, it could also make it harder for Medicaid beneficiaries to access services such as transportation, nutrition and housing assistance, according to Damon Terzaghi, senior director of Medicaid advocacy at the National Alliance for Care at Home.
Source: McKnights Home Care, March 5, 2025
The National Alliance for Care at Home, the leading home care advocacy organization, has weighed in on a House budget resolution that threatens to cut billions of dollars from Medicaid.
“Medicaid is a complex program and changes to one part of the statute may have unanticipated negative outcomes on other aspects of services, financing, or reimbursements,” the Alliance said Wednesday in a statement. “We encourage Congress to be extremely careful to avoid making changes that could lead to unintended outcomes. We stand ready to provide our expertise to help strengthen Medicaid for all individuals and providers.”
Source: Alliance Daily, March 11, 2025
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) held a public meeting last week that addressed home healthcare use among Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries. The analysis was conducted at the request of the MedPac Commission members, who expressed an interest in better understanding the Medicare Advantage usage of home health services compare to Fee for Service (FFS) Medicare, now that half of beneficiaries are enrolled in a MA plan.
The researchers used a combination of MA plan encounter data and the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) to conduct the analysis.
Source: Alliance Daily, March 6, 2025
The National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance) is concerned about recent legislative developments that may impact the Medicaid program. These include the passage of the House Budget Bill and the reconciliation framework that includes instructions for the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find $880 billion in reductions to programs under its jurisdiction; passage of the Senate Budget framework that does not include such drastic reductions; and comments by Speaker of the House Johnson (R-LA) that any changes to Medicaid will not include caps on federal funding or changes to the state matching formulas.
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