Several news outlets gave press coverage about the impact of a minimum wage increase on home care. The coverage stemmed from legislative hearings where lawmakers questioned state health officials about the impact, and where health organizations delivered testimony about our impact analysis. That analysis finds that a minimum wage increase to $15 per hour would have a $1.7 billion impact on New York's home care community whose reimbursement is capped by Medicaid. Below are some links to the news stories:
State must pick up $2.9 billion tab for higher wages, providers tell legislators (Crain's Health Pulse, January 26, 2016)
No plan to account for wage hike (Times Union, January 26, 2016)
Health providers predict big trouble from $15 minimum wage (Gannett News Service, January 25, 2016)
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