As we look back over 2025, Tim and Nathan at Hoven Consulting are grateful to have the opportunity to work in Madison to advocate on behalf of Wisconsin’s home health agencies to improve patient safety and increase patient access to our state’s health care system.

With your help, WiAHC helped accomplish a number of important policy and budgetary priorities that benefit home health agencies and the patients you serve:

• Home Health Skilled Nursing Medicaid Rate Increase: Increase the Medicaid reimbursement rate from $96.96 per home visit to approximately $117.86 per home visit, which is 70 percent of the Medicare home health reimbursement rate. Due to funding levels, it appears that this rate increase will be fully implemented in the second year of the budget – in state Fiscal Year 2026-2027.
• Continued to advocate to eliminate outdated home health agency professional advisory bodies from state regulations, including drafting and submitting written and verbal testimony to the state Department of Health Services (DHS). We anticipate that this state regulatory change will likely be complete by mid-2026.

We look forward to 2026 and our continued efforts to advocate for policies that benefit both home health agencies and the patients you serve.

From all of us at Hoven Consulting, we would like to wish all of you and your families a very happy and healthy holiday season!