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New Biden Administration rule change will hurt nursing facilities to help unionized direct care

  There are issues when it comes to people wanting to work at assisted living facilities, with them not recovering employment levels like other parts of the medical community after the government shutdown of the nation. Now the Biden Administration wants to kick them while they are down by bringing in new rules that will now limit people’s access to these facilities. Members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing and had a response. Medicaid Rule Here, via a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services press release , is the Medicaid rule change on helping those needing assistance. Requires that in three years, states report on their readiness to collect data regarding the percentage of Medicaid payments for homemaker, home health aide, personal care, and habilitation services spent on compensation to the direct care workers furnishing these services; and in four years, states report on the percentage of Medicaid payments for homemaker, home health aide, p...