{"id":159801,"date":"2026-03-10T23:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159801\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:49:09","slug":"home-health-agencies-in-new-york-are-in-financial-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159801\/","title":{"rendered":"Home health agencies in New York are in financial trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty percent of home care and hospice agencies in the state are losing money, and they\u2019re not expected to get a cut of the $3.7 billion in new health care funding in Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s executive budget proposal.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Al Cardillo, the president and CEO of the Home Care Association of New York State, home care in New York is looking for funding that will stabilize the home health side of agencies that work closely with hospitals and physicians on critical care for patients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a continuing trend of erosion,\u201d Cardillo told Capital Tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty percent of those agencies have closed over the past five years, and over 200,000 Medicaid patients haven\u2019t been able to receive care.<\/p>\n<p>Cardillo is hoping to see $100 million in the enacted budget for home health agencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a fraction of what the system dictates and depends,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixty percent of home care and hospice agencies in the state are losing money, and they\u2019re not expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[206,205,2952,109,116,204,202,2953,4429,9,24,55,54,49,12,56,112,87,4281,201,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-159801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-albany-capital-region","9":"tag-app-capital-tonight","10":"tag-app-health","11":"tag-app-local-state-politics","12":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","13":"tag-capital-tonight","14":"tag-capital-tonight-interviews","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-healthcare","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","20":"tag-new-york-city-news","21":"tag-new-york-state","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-ny","24":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-state-budget","27":"tag-susan-arbetter","28":"tag-top-stories","29":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}