Medicaid reimbursement rates, used to cover low-income patient care, will decrease at Bexar County elder care facilities May 11.
, that will have an impact, said Kevin Warren, president of the Texas Health Care Association.
“To take that $20 away, it’s just going to make things more challenging,” Crump said. “At the end of the day, providers like us have to decide, are we going to continue to decrease the number of Medicaid residents we serve simply because we just can’t afford to do it?” Even before the subsidy expired, Medicaid reimbursement rates were “inadequate,” he said, which contributed to the closure of the nonprofit’s Chandler Estate branch near Tobin Hill in 2018.
Medicaid reimbursement rates, which are set through a combination of state and federal contributions, were last increased on the state level in 2013. They’re reviewed every two years by theAdvocates and health care coalitions have been warning about the subsidy ending for years in preparation for the May 11 deadline.
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