In support of an effort to increase the Medicaid reimbursement rate for home health agency-based nurses from $96.96 per visit to $117.86 per visit, WiAHC sent out an action alert to all WiAHC members on May 29 and again on June 16 requesting that they contact their respective state representatives and state senators to ask them to support this budget request. Such a rate increase would bring Wisconsin in line with other Midwest states.

In a positive development, WiAHC’s lobbyists have previously secured the support of both Senator Rachael Cabral-Guevara (R-Appleton), a nurse practitioner, and Representative Clint Moses (R-Menomonie), a chiropractor, to formally submit this request to the Joint Committee on Finance for consideration to be possibly included in the FY2025-2027 Department of Health Services budget.