PHA Priorities
PHA’s advocacy priorities are to support access to home care through competitive wages for nurses and direct care workers who provide critical in-home care services to Medicaid recipients across the commonwealth. Review the below fact sheets to learn more about how stagnant Medicaid rates impact care recipients and workers across Pennsylvania, and take action here.
Home Care in Pennsylvania
Invest in Pennsylvania’s Direct Care Workforce
Supporting Rate Increases for In-Home Nursing
PHA Advocacy
PHA regularly comments on proposed legislation and regulations to ensure that home care, home health and hospice is represented. Comment letters and provider feedback help lawmakers and regulators to understand how these proposals affect our industry and are an important part of advocacy.
General
- PA Homecare Assn: State budget must include a 10% increase for direct care workers, raise for pediatric & adult shift nurses, to stem PA’s worsening home care crisis
- Shapiro Administration Study Confirms: Home Care Crisis Requires Critical Investments in State Dollars
- Pennsylvania Homecare Association: Home Care Industry Genuinely and Gravely Concerned
- House Aging Testimony 1-28-2025
- PHA Open Letter to Governor Shapiro and Legislators on ’25-26 State Budget
- PHA 2025-2026 Proposed Program Revision Requests (PRR)
- OAPSA Testimony
- Waiver Amendment Comments
- Mandatory Meal Breaks Letter
- OAPSA Stakeholder Feedback Letter
- OAPSA Feedback to House Aging Chairs
- Comments on ODP-ProposedRates
- Workplace Violence Prevention Act
- PHA Testimony Workforce
- Aging Our Way PHA Comments
- Medicaid Fraud Letter
- PHA Testimony Rural Health
- PHA Letter to Gov. Shapiro