Delaware To Raise Rates For Medicaid HCBS For Adults With Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities

On September 4, 2018, Delaware Governor John Carney signed legislation that raises reimbursement rates for Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS) for adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD). The bill does not change the HCBS benefit. Instead the bill sets a process to raise reimbursement rates to increase hourly wages of direct support professionals (DSPs), and fully fund the services DSPs provide at a benchmark rate set in 2014. The goal is to improve recruitment and retention of DSPs, to decrease staff turnover, and to decrease position vacancies. The Delaware Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDS) does not anticipate . . .