As you know, the 2017 Texas Legislature voted to restore 25% of the therapy rate reductions cut by previous legislators. This small win for Medicaid therapy is now in danger of going unrealized due to the potentially negative effects of proposed policy changes.
Earlier this week, the Health & Human Services Commission held a public hearing on the proposed Medicaid payment rates for physical, occupational, and speech therapy providers. Therapy providers from across Texas testified to the negative effects the proposed methodology and policy changes will have on their agency's ability to provide services to medically fragile children.
It is time to tell our State Representatives and State Senators that their intention to restore 25% of previously cut funding to the Medicaid therapy program could be nullified because of the proposed policy changes.
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