The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should direct the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to amend 42 CFR 441.311(e)(2) to require states to report hourly wages paid to home- and community-based services (HCBS) workers who provide the following services: personal care, home health aide, homemaker, and habilitation. States should report descriptive statistics on hourly wages for each service as determined by HHS. For each service, these data should be disaggregated by worker characteristics determined by HHS, including but not limited to: by licensed nurses and all other direct care workers, and by rural versus urban settings. CMS should build upon planned or existing data collection activities or tools, and publish data on the CMS website.
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