CMS Floats Reinstating Policy To Boost Home Health Aide Benefit Access

CMS wants to again allow states to use part of a provider’s Medicaid payments to cover consenting independent home health workers’ dues to support third-party benefits like health care and training, according to a proposed rule released Friday (July 30). The rule seeks to reestablish an Obama-era policy reversed by the Trump administration. Home health workers can be employed by an agency or work as independent contractors. When working independently, Medicaid might be a home health worker’s only source of...