Budget Amendment ID: FY2025-S4-537-R2

2nd Redraft EHS 537

Permissible Use Standards for Home Care Agencies

Ms. Jehlen, Messrs. Cronin, Eldridge, Brady and Lewis, Ms. Moran, Messrs. Payano, Gomez and Mark, Ms. Edwards and Messrs. Moore, Feeney, Finegold, Montigny and Cyr moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 9110-1630, by inserting after the word “office”, the second time it appears, the following words:-“; provided further, that any home care agency subcontracting with an aging service access point to provide home care services to an enrollee in the elder home care program shall use not less than 75 per cent of received rate funding for such services for the compensation of their direct care, frontline and medical and clinical staff, which may include, but shall not be limited to, hourly rate increases, wraparound benefits, shift differentials, overtime, hiring and retention bonuses or recruitment, as defined by the executive office; provided further, that the executive office of elder affairs shall, not later than October 1, 2024, develop and issue comprehensive guidelines to the aging service access points and subcontracting home care agencies providing services under the elder home care program that include annual reporting requirements and strong enforcement standards for the 75 per cent permissible use standard; provided further, that the executive office of elder affairs shall annually audit the annual reports to confirm compliance with the 75 per cent permissible use standard and to further the executive office’s enforcement of that standard”.