How Medicaid cuts have affected my job

Medicaid has cut 1% funding in Idaho. The focus area is in Partial Care and PSR (and DDA's). With Partial Care they are cutting back hours from 36 to only 12 per week. This makes it so that a lot of the kids are going through the process of being qualified for PSR. With PSR they cutting it back from 20 hours to 10 hours per week. This new rule doesn't really affect my company because we don't have any kids with more than 10 hours per week. The reasoning is because either the kid will get burnt out or the PSR worker will. It's not very therapeautic.

I'm hoping the preschool partial care kids will be approved soon. This means that I will have more daytime hours. In the long run, Medicaid is shooting themselves in the foot because PSR bills more than Partial Care. Good luck Medicaid in trying to save money! The other thing; those that cut the funding received an 8% raise this year. Hmmm!