Fixing No Fault Will Save Lives

Auto No-Fault reimbursement fee schedule became effective on July 2, 2021.  The reform legislation slashed family attendant care and other ancillary services to no more than 56 hours per week, forcing families to rely even more heavily on home care agencies to provide needed care.  Unfortunately, Agency reimbursement was cut 45%, causing reimbursement to be below the cost needed to sustain an employee to provide care.  Agencies have discharged auto injured patients and closed their agency. Some agencies have continued care but with no assurance of the legislative fix necessary to restore appropriate care.

The Michigan HomeCare and Hospice Association is committed to a reasonable solution to fix the home care (attendant care) reimbursement imposed by Michigan’s 2019 Auto No Fault Reforms which became effective on July 2, 2021.  Legislative leaders are holding up the reforms supported by the strong bipartisan majority of state legislators.  Auto injured survivors are dying, becoming displaced from their homes and jobs, because our state legislators passed a law that includes an unsustainable reimbursement fee schedule for home care. While the bipartisan majority of legislators support a reasonable fix, Legislative leadership (Senate Majority Leader Shirkey and Speaker Jason Wentworth) refuse to allow the issue to be voted on.