Strengthening and Investing in Home and Community Based Services for Medicaid Beneficiaries: American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 Section 9817 Spending Plans and Narratives

AUTHOR: Medicaid.gov

SUBJECT: Medicaid, financing, solutions, home care, invest in care, states, policy implementation, care infrastructure, policy development, CMS

States Are Using One-Time Funds to Improve Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services, But Longer-Term Investments Are Needed

AUTHOR: JENNIFER SULLIVAN

SUBJECT: Medicaid, financing, solutions, home care, invest in care, states, policy implementation, care infrastructure

Association Between New-Onset Medicaid Home Care and Family Caregivers’ Health

AUTHORS: Emily S. Unger, BA, David C. Grabowski, PhD, Jarvis T. Chen, ScD

SUBJECT: Family caregivers, Medicaid, workforce, mental health, home care solutions

Voices of Paid and Family Caregivers for Medicaid Enrollees Receiving HCBS

AUTHORS: MaryBeth Musumeci, Meghana Ammula, and Robin Rudowitz

SUBJECT: solutions, unions, wages, benefits, invest in care, job quality, pandemic, Medicaid, home care, workforce

Private Equity’s Potential Payday From Build Back Better

Private Equity’s Potential Payday From Build Back Better Legislation with the size and scope of the $4 trillion “Build Back Better” agenda is like a Bat-Signal for lobbyists, urging them to swarm Capitol Hill without delay. Literally thousands of companies, organizations, and trade groups have lobbied on one or more of the bills in this… Continue reading Private Equity’s Potential Payday From Build Back Better

McKnight’s Senior Living: Providers insist on higher Medicaid rates to recruit, pay home health workers

The Wisconsin Association for Home Care is demanding an increase in the state’s Medicaid rate for home-based skilled nursing. The two-year, $91 billion budget recently unveiled by Governor Tony Evers provided no additional funding for skilled nursing in the home.

HealthAffairs: Modernizing Long-Term Services And Supports And Valuing The Caregiver Workforce

On March 11, 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act, increasing the federal matching assistance percentage (FMAP) in Medicaid by 10 percentage points…

The Hill: How Medicaid can fuel the care economy

The Biden administration has promised to ‘build back better’ by committing to relief and recovery after the worst economic crisis of our lifetime. This pandemic reveals a collective public health and economic vulnerability, but also a vulnerability that actively produces inequality.