UHIP "Disrupted Ecosystem of Nursing Home Industry in Unprecedented Fashion" - Nyberg on LIVE
UHIP "Disrupted Ecosystem of Nursing Home Industry in Unprecedented Fashion" - Nyberg on LIVE
Nyberg, who is the Director of LeadingAge Rhode Island (LARI), which is a not-for-profit membership organization comprised of not-for-profit providers of aging services, strongly defined being unresponsive to state billing errors, and disputed the characterization that nursing homes have been unresponsive to the state in its quest to recoup double payments for Medicaid reimbursements, and assert that nursing homes are not holding state money.
“In fact, because of the UHIP debacle, nursing homes are owed tens of millions of dollars in Medicaid payments from the State of Rhode Island. These interim payments…are what is keeping many senior care organizations financially afloat while they await payments from application delays and billing issues caused by the UHIP fiasco. This false depiction of our industry is extremely frustrating,” said Nyberg.
According to Nyberg, the most recent data from EOHHS shows that there are 1,079 backlogged Medicaid applications, including 150 that have remained stalled in “pending” status in excess of one year. Once approved, additional billing hurdles must be overcome before reimbursement checks are actually sent.
"UHIP has disrupted the financial ecosystem of the entire nursing home industry in unprecedented fashion," said Nyberg.
“Nursing homes are committed to providing uninterrupted, compassionate care and services to frail seniors -- even if the state is almost a year overdue in paying its bills. We have not evaded responsibility for repayment of our debts; we are the responsible financial agents here,” said Nyberg.