Michigan Radio: Rehabilitation services closing down due to auto insurance law's July 1 deadline

In this Michigan Radio piece, Tracy Samilton dives into the devastating impacts of the fee schedule that will cut reimbursements to providers by nearly half. Dr. Randal Bruce, of Aspire Rehabilitation Services says, "We can't absorb the 45% pay cut and stay in business.” 

President and CEO of the Brain Injury Association of Michigan, Tom Constand, says they tried to warn legislators of what has happened in other states but “they wouldn’t listen.” 

The article further details:

Constand says in most other states, patients severely injured in car accidents end up on Medicaid. Most rehabilitative professionals don't accept Medicaid because the reimbursements are so low they can't stay in business. So, he says, the patients end up in nursing homes with virtually no rehabilitation.

"They get three meals a day, and a change of sheets," he says baldly.

Constand says there may not be enough room to absorb many of these kind of patients at nursing homes, so some people may have to be transferred and live in a hospital while awaiting a bed in a long-term facility.

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