Did you know that the federal government has taxed travel nursing homes? Yep, they have just one more tax to levy against traveling nursing homes.
In a nutshell, the feds have come down hard on these businesses by requiring them to pay a hefty tax on each visit their guests make to a nursing home.
They aren’t just taxing the businesses, they’re also putting the federal government in charge of the care and feeding of the residents. And guess what? That’s just one more reason to avoid this business.
Well, yeah, but the government also gets to get a tax break for the nursing homes. They get to get a break on their taxes because they’re not caring for the residents like the rest of us do. But, because of the feds, the nursing homes can’t do something as simple as sending out a notification to their patients that they’re going to be leaving.
This is one of the reasons I want to avoid this business. I don’t want the government to have a say in the care of my family.
That and the fact that as a nurse, you get no breaks, and theyre all in the same state. But what do you do? Well, your job is to take care of the people who need you, and that can mean, you know, you get paid more. Well, we didnt do that. We got paid less to take care of the people who were in our state. But we still got to pay for the costs.
I know it isn’t fair that the people who were on Medicaid don’t get a break on the taxes that they pay. And I know that nursing homes are not immune to the tax increases that they are due to the Affordable Care Act. But that’s not the point. We can all agree that the insurance companies don’t have to provide a break on the taxes that they have to pay.
Travel nursing is an issue in many states and even in New York, where the tax increased $15,000 this year to pay for health care benefits for the elderly. The problem is that many of the people with Medicaid in those states have to pay the entire cost of their health care. So if a nursing home in New York were to pay $3000 to take care of a person with Medicaid, it would have to raise its taxes to pay for that person’s care.
This is an issue most of us have probably already been wondering about. We’ve been on the receiving end of it, and we might be asking ourselves, what the heck is going on? New York has just passed legislation imposing a tax of $5.50 per day on those with Medicaid. This means that, in order to care for a person who needs help paying for their own health care, the New York State government has to raise taxes.
The 5.50 per day tax is a common practice in many places around the country and is called “travel nursing.” The idea is that when a person with Medicaid (a governmentally funded program) lives in a state where there is a lot of nursing home care, they spend more time in nursing homes and less time in the hospital than they do in the hospital if they had to pay for their own care.
