LeadingAge New York and other groups are discussing Medicaid funding for minimum wage mandate. 

Federal Transit Administration to award $5.3M in funding to foster local partnerships between health, transportation, home and community-based and other service sectors.   

Budget proposals would exclude from MLTC enrollment beneficiaries who require only a community-based level of care, add new MLTC benefits, impose penalties for deficient encounter data reporting, and reduce MLTC rates based on an assumed level of fraud recoveries.

The salary threshold for an executive, administrative or professional employee to qualify for an exemption from overtime pay will increase from $455 per week to $913 per week ($47,476 for a full-year worker) as of Dec. 1, 2016.

New guidance on managed long term care UAS assessment procedures covers in-person requirements, timelines, review and consult, "unfinalizing" an assessment, and unsigned assessments.