Medicaid Increases Announced For Home & Community Based Service Providers

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Maryland Department of Health connected Monday announced Medicaid complaint increases for location and community-based services (HCBS) providers.

Those providers received a 10 percent lucifer successful spending from the American Rescue Plan Act to fortify HCBS services implicit the coronavirus pandemic.

The state’s fund measure for the 2022 fiscal year, which was passed successful May, requires Medicaid to walk astatine slightest 75 percent of those ARPA dollars for the supplier complaint increase.

The authorities is implementing these increases:

A 5.5 percent complaint summation for astir HCBS developmental disablement providers
A 5.4 percent complaint summation for astir HCBS behavioral wellness and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) providers
A 5.2 percent complaint summation for community-based semipermanent services and enactment providers

MDH Secretary Dennis Schrader said the accrued rates volition assistance HCBS providers fortify work transportation to recipients by enhancing services.

“These complaint increases volition beryllium instrumental successful further serving our Medicaid recipient population,” Schrader said. “The caller rates are the effect of moving intimately with Medicaid providers and stakeholders, and they volition assistance Marylanders who request assistance the most.”

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