Assembly approves increase to Assisted Living self-pay rates

During its Jan. 3 meeting, the Petersburg Borough Assembly unanimously approved an ordinance in its first reading that would tie the service rates for self-pay residents at Mountain View Manor Assisted Living to the maximum service rates allowed for the facility under Medicaid.

Medicaid raises per day services rates for Medicaid Residential Supported Living annually, but those increases have not been adopted by the borough.

That is because the service rates charged for Medicaid RSL cannot exceed the rates charged to self-pay residents, which have not been raised at Assisted Living since early...