Nebraska To Implement New Foster Care Administrative Rates

On May 16, 2014, the Nebraska Children’s Commission Foster Care Reimbursement Rate Committee endorsed new proposed foster care administrative rates for the coming year following an agreement between Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and foster care provider organizations about the rates. Previously the rates were not standardized statewide. The new rates are due to 2013 legislation, Legislative Bill (LB) 530, which directed DHHS to implement new foster parent maintenance rates by July 1, 2014 and to consider the statewide foster care reimbursement rate structure, including changes to administrative rates for child placing agencies. The proposed administrative . . .