Policy priority
Home Care Rate Floor
Make sure home care funding actually reaches the providers delivering care.
The challenge
State-established payment rates are sometimes reduced through managed care contracting.
Why it matters
When rates are cut between the state and the provider, the dollars the legislature intended for caregivers never arrive.
What the Alliance supports
- A Home Care Rate-Floor Act requiring Medicaid managed care plans to pay no less than a standardized, state-set minimum rate reflecting the true cost of care
Evidence
A rate floor protects legislative intent and gives small agencies the stability to plan like a business.
“Home care funding should reach the providers delivering care.”