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THCA Warns of Ominous Implications for Seniors, Jobs, Local Communities if Deep Medicaid Rate Cuts Enacted
January 7, 2011In testimony today before the Texas Health and Human Services Commission staff regarding proposed 2% rate cuts to Medicaid-funded nursing home care, the President of the Texas Health Care Association (THCA), Tim Graves, expressed concern the cuts just announced "are a prelude to the possibility of still more, much deeper cuts once the next Legislature begins writing a budget for the next biennium." Graves, evaluating the total funding picture, testified: "The proposed 2% Medicaid rate cuts - on top of last September's $25.6 million state Medicaid cuts and federal Medicare cuts of over $1.5 billion over ten years enacted as part of CMS actions and health care reform - places Texas' nursing home residents, their caregivers and the local communities in which they reside in clear and present danger." Full release
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