LRB-0770/P1
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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Stinebrink, BB0239 - Developing a statewide minimum rate band for home and community-based long-term care supports
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
health and human services
General health and human services
Statewide minimum rate band for home and community-based long-term health care supports
This bill directs DHS to develop a statewide rate band that would establish equitable and sustainable minimum rates for home and community-based long-term care supports. Home and community-based long-term care supports are Medical Assistance programs designed to deliver long-term care to patients in their own home or other community-based setting, rather than a nursing home or other institutional setting. The Medical Assistance program is a joint federal and state program, currently administered by DHS, that provides health services to individuals who have limited financial resources. The bill also requires DHS to include in its 2023-25 biennial budget request a proposal to implement the statewide rate band.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 9119.
Nonstatutory provisions; Health Services
(1) Statewide minimum rate band for home and community-based long-term care supports.
(a) The department of health services shall develop a statewide minimum rate band for home and community-based long-term care supports to establish equitable and sustainable minimum rates.
(b) The department of health services shall include in its 2023-25 budget request a proposal to implement the rate band developed under par. (a).
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