Tax dodging tea freemen soverign bagger citizens may have to care for granny themselves
source: http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_f37fe5af-ed8f-5e75-8ce7-921e45eff189.html
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Montana to lop 2% off payments to assisted living homes, hospitals, everybody but doctors, who care for Medicaid patients. Payment rates to go back to 2009 levels, despite fact that costs for providing care have gone up. This, as part of the budget passed by the GOP dominated state legislature and signed by DEM Governor Schweitzer.
If the Department of Public Health and Human Services adopts the new rules, it means a $13 million drop for each of the next 2 years for all providers but physicians. Payments, frozen at 2010 levels will be rolled back to 2009 levels.
Public hearings on the new rules will be held Wednesday. Rules, if adopted are scheduled to go into effect Aug 1.
http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_f37fe5af-ed8f-5e75-8ce7-921e45eff1...
State law requires that those needing institutionalized care be tended in the least restrictive environment possible. For many rural communities, that means small facilities or group homes which rely on Medicaid to stay afloat. With the lower rate of reimbursement, many residents will have to be moved to larger institutions, often hours away from where patients' families reside, or back into family homes, where details for daily care will have to be assumed by private citizens directly.
Waiting to hear the howls from family members who may end up taking care of granny and any developmentally disabled kin when assisted living facilities are forced to close their doors to people who rely on Medicaid to pay for care they need. Some will have to hire help or quit outside jobs to care for people who will be moved out of the 100 smaller care facilities, scattered around the fourth largest state, that have relied on Medicaid to help offset costs and have been steadily losing ground to rising costs.
How many of those family members turned full-time-care-givers will connect the dots and realize that low taxes for the top and specialized loopholes to keep them from even paying the low rates are creating an ever increasing burden on 90% of the population?
If the Department of Public Health and Human Services adopts the new rules, it means a $13 million drop for each of the next 2 years for all providers but physicians. Payments, frozen at 2010 levels will be rolled back to 2009 levels.
Public hearings on the new rules will be held Wednesday. Rules, if adopted are scheduled to go into effect Aug 1.
http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_f37fe5af-ed8f-5e75-8ce7-921e45eff1...
State law requires that those needing institutionalized care be tended in the least restrictive environment possible. For many rural communities, that means small facilities or group homes which rely on Medicaid to stay afloat. With the lower rate of reimbursement, many residents will have to be moved to larger institutions, often hours away from where patients' families reside, or back into family homes, where details for daily care will have to be assumed by private citizens directly.
Waiting to hear the howls from family members who may end up taking care of granny and any developmentally disabled kin when assisted living facilities are forced to close their doors to people who rely on Medicaid to pay for care they need. Some will have to hire help or quit outside jobs to care for people who will be moved out of the 100 smaller care facilities, scattered around the fourth largest state, that have relied on Medicaid to help offset costs and have been steadily losing ground to rising costs.
How many of those family members turned full-time-care-givers will connect the dots and realize that low taxes for the top and specialized loopholes to keep them from even paying the low rates are creating an ever increasing burden on 90% of the population?
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- Montana, Medicaid, Assisted Living
