When Reimbursement Falls, Master Unit Costs

For executives of health and human services provider organizations, reimbursement rates are a continuing challenge. The problem used to be that the rates weren’t keeping up with either inflation or the cost of delivering services, particularly when it came to compensation rates for clinical professionals. Now we are seeing more rate cuts.

Last month we reported on a $126 million funding cut in Maryland for family caregivers’ wages to support consumers with developmental disabilities (see;Maryland Cuts Developmental Disabilities Care Funding, Putting Family Caregivers On Notice); reduced reimbursement for certain Medicaid applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy provider organizations . . .