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FHA has created this Charity Care Issue Brief to assist member hospitals in supplementing their communication efforts with their board of directors, leadership teams, media outlets, and the wider community regarding the topic of charity care and the role of nonprofit hospitals. This information can be used to inform and educate these audiences on the specific issue addressed in the brief or on the broader topic of charity care and nonprofit hospitals.
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This Executive Summary serves as a companion document to the above Charity Case Issue Brief and provides a summary of the key points and takeaways. It offers a high-level overview of the most important information contained in the full brief.
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The state fiscal year 2022–2023 budget included specific funding for an increase in the state’s minimum wage. The Minimum Wage Issue Brief has been developed to provide additional background information on this increase to a $15.00 an hour minimum wage and what this means for the state’s hospitals and health systems.
Over $600 million was allocated for the fiscal year 2022 - 2023 state budget to provide funding to the Agency of Healthcare Administration (AHCA) to facilitate the process of increasing the minimum wage of direct care employees to $15.00 per hour. Of this total, $31.3 million is allocated for hospital inpatient and outpatient rates. This increase requires all Florida Medicaid providers to submit a supplemental wage agreement by the Agency’s mandatory deadline. AHCA recently clarified that the $15.00 per hour minimum wage requirement applies only to direct care workers and the attestation language will refer to the General Appropriations Act. Further clarification can be found here. Additionally, FHA encourages providers with questions to submit the question on the Agency’s Minimum Wage question portal here. Download the Issue Brief here |