The Home Care Association of New York State (HCA) is fighting to combat 0 million in cuts to home care that were recently advanced under a package of Medicaid proposals abruptly accepted by the Cuomo Administration-led Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT). “For elderly, chronically ill, and disabled New Yorkers served in home care settings, many of the MRT proposals are potentially catastrophic and all read like a ‘cliff-notes’ version of policy reform,” said HCA President Joanne Cunningham. “These so-called blue-ribbon-panel ‘reforms’ disproportionately target an area of our health care system — home care — which, ironically, has been proven to be one of the most cost-effective ways to provide appropriate levels of care in the preferred setting for hundreds of thousands of patients across New York.” Cunningham continued: “The Governor’s proposals will irreparably damage an already fragile home care system where 70% of home care providers are already operating in the red, due to past cuts and unfunded mandates.” Neither HCA nor any other statewide representative of long term care is on the MRT at the same time that cost-effective home care services got the brunt of proposed cuts and structural changes. Out of 79 items included in the final matrix of proposals for MRT consideration, home care accounts for more than 20% of calculable fiscal reductions — not counting the huge, exponential financial impacts neglected in these estimates — even though already cost-effective home …
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