08/29/2025
📢 Update on Medicaid Fee Schedule Cuts
Despite funding shortfalls in the state’s stopgap budget passed on July 30, the State House legislative leadership has instructed NCDHHS to suspend its proposed reductions to both reimbursement rates for providers and covered services.
⚠️ Currently, a continued CALL TO ACTION is needed!
Reach out to your representatives and share how your personal OT experience impacts your:
• 👩⚕️ Clients
• 🧑🤝🧑 Patients
• 🎓 Students
• 💼 Job
✨ Highlighting:
1️⃣ The proposed cuts to the OT Medicaid fee(s) schedule and the need to fully fund the Medicaid rebase.
2️⃣ Consider acknowledging their attentiveness to both your advocacy efforts for OT and the broader community interests.
📬 We will continue to share updates and status changes as we receive credible information about the decisions being made.
💙 Your commitment to OT in North Carolina is valued, and our combined outreach to legislators produces the most significant results.
🙌 Your efforts for ADVOCACY are working — please continue to remain in contact with your legislators!
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Leaders of the North Carolina House of Representatives have instructed the state's Medicaid program to suspend its plans to cut reimbursement rates and services in October, despite a shortfall in Medicaid funding in lawmakers' stopgap spending plan.
