Minnesota DHS Aging and Adult Services Rate Study
The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) Aging and Adult Services Division is conducting a survey of provider costs and wages to support the evaluation of the legislatively-mandated rate methodology for a number of services provided under the Elderly Waiver, Community Access for Disability Inclusion, Brain Injury Waiver and the Alternative Care and Essential Community Supports programs. DHS is required to provide a report to the legislature summarizing the results of its evaluation and providing any recommendations for changes to methodology (Minnesota Statute 256S.21, Subd. 2-3). Guidehouse Inc., DHS’s contractor for this project, is issuing the survey.
Completion of this survey is your opportunity to help inform the components and factors of the rate methodology for these critical services. DHS welcomes and strongly encourages all providers to participate in the survey process. Providers that do not have a business tax identification number, or use their social security number as a business tax identification number, do not need to complete a survey.
Please contact MNDHSRateStudy@Guidehouse.com with any questions related to the survey prior to the survey due date of March 21st, 2025.
The following services are being evaluated:
- For Elderly Waiver, Alternative Care Program, and Essential Community Supports:
- Adult Day Service
- Chore Services
- Home Delivered Meals
- Homemaker
- For Elderly Waiver and Alternative Care Program:
- Adult Companion Services
- Respite
- Individual Community Living Supports
- For Elderly Waiver:
- Community Residential Services (formerly Adult Foster Care)
- Customized Living Services
- For Brain Injury Waiver and Community Access for Disability Inclusion:
- Customized Living Services
The cost and wage survey, and an associated instruction guide, is available for download from this project website for your convenience. There is one survey for all services listed above. Surveys are due Friday, March 21st, 2025.
If you have any questions, please contact Guidehouse at our dedicated email address for this rate study at MNDHSRateStudy@Guidehouse.com. If you wish to contact DHS, please send your responses to Dhs.aasd.hcbs@state.mn.us. We thank you in advance for your participation in this important survey.
