On the Parker Jewish Institute for Well being Care and Rehabilitation, in Queens, our residents aren’t a finances line. They’re individuals — with households, histories, and wishes that don’t pause whereas Albany negotiates. However the system meant to fund their care is working on math from 2007. That hole — between what care really prices and what the state really pays — is now not manageable. It’s a structural failure. And Albany has had practically twenty years to appropriate it. Medicaid reimbursement charges, which fund nearly all of long-term care in New York, are nonetheless primarily based on prices from…
