High gas prices are pinching home health nurses
“But key to the nurses’ home visits, of course, is driving, and the key to driving is gas — whose price is going up like bad blood pressure . . .
. . . Understandably, when she’s paying for it and driving 50 to 80 miles a day. If the reimbursement for mileage didn’t go up, Corr and other home care nurses might be paying out of pocket.
Instead her employer, Partners Home Care, has recently increased reimbursement to $.38 a mile, that’s a 23 percent hike since last summer. For the next fiscal year, Partners has had to increase its budget by 8.5 percent.”
