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Justice Department memo tests Florida case over children in nursing homes
A June 18 Justice Department opinion challenges the ADA's integration mandate; its first test is the federal case over medically fragile children placed in Florida nursing homes.
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North Carolina bill would set $18-to-$24 wage floors for direct-care workers
House Bill 1045 would set occupation-specific minimums from $18 an hour for home care aides to $24 for licensed practical nurses, starting January 2028 if approved.
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Kentucky families rally as 4% Medicaid waiver cut nears its Aug. 1 start
About 100 families, caregivers and providers rallied in Frankfort against a 4% Medicaid waiver reimbursement cut set for Aug. 1, as nearly 19,000 Kentuckians wait for waiver slots.
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Judge orders Oklahoma Medicaid to restore Mirabelle Care's payments
A judge ordered Oklahoma's Medicaid agency to resume Mirabelle Care's SoonerCare payments and lift its November fraud suspension, the company says. The underlying investigation remains active.
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Georgetown: CMS work-reporting rule is harsher than the statute
The interim final rule narrows the medical frailty exemption and leaves key definitions to states, so identical circumstances may be judged differently by state.
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Kentucky cuts Medicaid waiver payments 4% starting Aug. 1
A June 8 letter told providers reimbursement drops next month, hitting the home and community-based waivers nearly 19,000 Kentuckians are already waiting on.
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Springfield Hospital will close Vermont adult day program Sept. 30
The program serves 42 clients and is one of only 10 adult day services in Vermont. The hospital cited financial challenges and underutilization since the pandemic.
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Oklahoma autism provider says seven centers close this month without Medicaid
Mirabelle Care is preparing to file for injunctive relief after the state froze its SoonerCare payments over a fraud investigation into the company's former owner.
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Maryland delays $126 million in disability cuts; families brace anyway
Gov. Wes Moore's budget cut $126 million from the Developmental Disabilities Administration. Because state funds are matched by Medicaid, the agency's shortfall tops $250 million.
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Washington high court ends sub-minimum-wage exemption for live-in caregivers
The state Supreme Court called the decades-old carve-out unconstitutional, extending wage, overtime, and sick-leave protections to adult family home staff.
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Minnesota's Medicaid provider crackdown hits small home-care agencies
The state is revalidating 5,600 'high-risk' providers and freezing payments; some clients have lost home care or been hospitalized.
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Federal policy converges on a fragile direct care workforce
Medicaid cuts, a wage-rule rollback, and stripped immigrant protections converge on home care as dementia costs climb.
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Minnesota's Medicaid provider crackdown reaches federal court
A state revalidation and payment-freeze drive lands on small home care agencies as CMS presses the model nationally.
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Medicaid work requirements move from statute to paperwork
Michigan starts twice-yearly checks as advocates warn CMS is narrowing exemptions for people with substance use disorders.
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Federal policy changes converge on the direct care workforce
A KFF analysis, a proposed wage rollback, and a Supreme Court TPS ruling all press on the workers who provide U.S. long-term care.
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Minnesota's high-risk Medicaid revalidation lands in federal court
The state's off-cycle screening of 5,600 providers now runs alongside a home care agency's due process fight over a frozen payment.
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Michigan sets Medicaid work rules, with a carve-out for family caregivers
About 678,000 expansion enrollees face 80-hour reporting from January 2027, as CMS narrows the medically-frail exemption Congress wrote.
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England Asks the Public Who Should Pay for Elder Care
Baroness Casey's commission calls England's social-care system 'impossible' and will ask the public who should receive care and how to pay for it.
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The Home-Care Workforce Walks Out as Its Wage Floor Is Cut
450 Mass General Brigham clinicians begin the state's largest healthcare strike as a federal rule moves to cut wage protections for 3 million home-care workers.
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The Rule Decides Who Counts as Too Sick to Work
Ms. Magazine argues the administration is narrowing Medicaid's 'medically frail' exemption beyond what Congress wrote, hitting sick and disabled enrollees first.
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Ohio Writes a Home-Care Fraud Crackdown Into Law
A bipartisan Medicaid home-health fraud bill, prompted by a Daily Wire investigation, clears both chambers and heads to Governor DeWine.
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Social Security's Own Trustees Now Score a 22% Cut for 2032
The 2026 trustees report projects a benefit cut for 70 million recipients, and the shortfall grew because the trustees cut their immigration forecast.
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Medicaid Work Requirements Are Coming. Caregivers Are the Collateral.
New rules demand work to keep Medicaid — but caring for a disabled child or aging parent doesn't count the way you'd think.
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The VA Cut 30,000 Jobs. Now It Says It's Hiring.
Veterans' caregivers are caught between a staffing purge and a promise that the worst is over. The data says otherwise.
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Texas Has a 10-Year Wait for Disability Services. A Hotline Won't Fix That.
A proposed national IDD caregiver hotline meets a Medicaid system where families wait a decade for help that may never arrive.
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Dingell's Home Care Bills Have Industry Backing. They Still Need Money.
PHI endorsed two landmark bills to expand home care access. LeadingAge is asking the hard question: who pays?
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