Speech therapy providers statewide face a severe decline in funding in the new year, after Iowa Medicaid Enterprise cut its reimbursement rates statewide by effectively 66%.
With the hasty Iowa behavioral health redistricting process advertising an emphasis on preventive care only months ago, local providers are shocked by a sudden shortfall in support that they believe violates Iowa’s Administrative Code.
The cut was announced Nov. 14 in a brief letter to providers from the Iowa Health and Human Services Department…