The Home and Community Based Care LEAN Core Team is meeting again tomorrow. The team has been invited back together by DHHS to receive an update on what has been happening with the implementation plan.
Last fall, the team reached consensus on revamping Maine's Home and Community Based Care system from a 7-program system to a 3-program system. With this comes Medicaid rule changes and funding stream changes.
Tomorrow, DHHS is letting the core team know what has taken place since January.
One thing the workers of Maine PASA and Local 771 pushed for was a comprehensive, comparable budget; a budget for the current 7-program system and a budget for the proposed 3-program system. Workers are curious to see if there will actually be savings in the new system.
DHHS took this as the workers wanting to see if there would be any savings that could be turned into higher wages. DHHS urged the worker groups to look for savings elsewhere to increase wages.
This was not the intent of the worker groups at all. The intent was to see if there are any savings between the old and the new systems. Some on the core team voiced their opinions that there wouldn't be savings, some said there would be. There is no way to tell unless actual figures can be looked at.
It is pretty bad when a department of our state government cannot produce a budget for a system currently in place.
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