CDPAP’s enrollment, workforce and total costs ballooned after the state relaxed eligibility rules in 2015. The number of people receiving care through the program surged from just under 20,000 in 2016 to almost 248,000 last year. New York state Medicaid spending on CDPAP in the last five years has more than tripled to about $9.1 billion.
New York needs to make changes to the program, which Hochul called “wildly expensive.”
…Jobs in home health make up an increasingly large share of the city and state’s overall economy. Between 2014 and 2024, home health aide jobs went from comprising 6% of New York City’s total private-sector jobs to 12%, according to Bill Hammond, the senior fellow for health policy at the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative think tank.
I am not sure all of these numbers fit together, and am not sure that the actual percentage of private sector jobs is 12 percent. Nonetheless, the growth here seems quite rapid. Here is more from Laura Nahmias at Bloomberg.
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