Addus HomeCare may pull out of states with low Medicaid reimbursements if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services moves forward with a proposal requiring states to spend 80% of home- and community-based services funding on caregiver wages.
Chair and CEO Dirk Allison challenged the federal government’s authority to dictate caregiver wage percentages to states and said a one-size-fits-all mandate would create an administrative nightmare…