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Provider Alert: Innovations Direct Care Workers Rate Increase Communication

Issued: January 2, 2024 The NC General Assembly appropriated $176 million in state and federal recurring funding in the Current Operations Appropriations Act of 2023 (SL 2023-134, Section 9E.15) to raise NC Medicaid Innovations waiver services rates so that Innovations services providers can in turn raise the hourly wages of their Direct Care Workers (DCW).