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Invest in HCBS to Ensure Access to High-Quality Services!

Home and community-based services (HCBS) providers across New York State continue to confront daunting financial and workforce challenges. While demand for community-based care is soaring due to changing preferences and our growing population of older adults, inadequate Medicaid rates and pandemic-related stresses have led to unprecedented workforce shortages. HCBS providers are being forced to limit patient admissions because they are unable to find sufficient staff. This has ripple effects for the entire health care system, delaying hospital and nursing home discharges to the community due to insufficient home care capacity 

Medicaid’s failure to pay long term care (LTC) providers rates that cover the costs of competitive wages is resulting in diminished access to care and long waiting lists.  

Amidst these challenges, initiatives in the proposed Executive Budget threaten the viability of home care and hospice providers by relaxing statute to allow hospitals to deliver care in the home. While the Legislature’s one-house budget proposals eliminate these changes, the Executive Budget expands the Home Care-Hospital-Physician collaborative statute 2805-X to allow hospitals to deliver care under Article 36. LeadingAge New York opposes these measures and supports requirements that hospitals and other providers should be fully licensed under Article 36 (Home Care) statute to provide home care in the home.  

To ensure access to high-quality HCBS, New York legislators and the Governor MUST provide funding to support home health and hospice workforce recruitment and retention in the final 2024-25 State Budget, and oppose expansion of the PHL 2805-x. We also urge the State to support key programs and services that enable aging in place.More details and our 2024 HCBS Budget Brief are available here. 

Enter your information below to send a message to your lawmakers, urging them to support HCBS providers in this year’s budget! Feel free to amend this letter, via the text box, to include any of your additional budget priorities.  

 

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