“New York’s Per Capita Home Health Aide Workforce Is Three Times Greater Than Other States’ Average,” by John Graham and Liam Sigaud, Paragon Health Institute
“Home health and personal care aides accounted for 38 percent of New York’s job growth from 2023 to 2024. There are almost three times as many of these workers as there are in retail sales—or one for every 16 of the almost ten million New Yorkers working in nonfarm jobs. This growth is even more concerning because New York recently decided to consolidate all these services under one statewide fiscal intermediary—and is stonewalling watchdogs demanding transparency about how this sweetheart deal came about, amid suspicions that politicians made the deal before the bid was publicized.”
LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:
New York Medicaid paid for 24-hour-a-day home care for decades. Not surprisingly, that program has become a hotbed for fraud. My Paragon Health Institute colleagues analyze the problem in this piece. Check it out.