Medicaid pay rate for PDN LPNs in New York State?

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Hi all!

I'm currently employed with a wonderful family as a personal care assistant for a 7 year old medically fragile child. The family has asked that I stay as his personal nurse upon graduation of my LPN program, which is three weeks away. I am looking to find out how much Medicaid pays LPNs for private duty nursing in the state of New York (not NYC - just upstate), but I can't seem to find anything online. Does anyone know?

The patient's mother told me they start between 21-25/hour with a 30% pay increase for working with a medically fragile child.

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For anyone following this post who is curious, I made a TON of phone calls today and finally was told that it varies by county, but in my county (Steuben) LPNs start off at $21.89/hour, and one county over is only like a 65 cent difference or something. On top of that, you do get the 30% extra totalling a bit over $28/hour if you work with a medically fragile child. :)

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I see we are from the same county. I was wondering if you had any idea about RN pay rates for Medicaid private duty? I am having a hard time finding private duty Medicaid RN around here to ask some questions.

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Specializes in Private Duty Pediatrics.
For anyone following this post who is curious, I made a TON of phone calls today and finally was told that it varies by county, but in my county (Steuben) LPNs start off at $21.89/hour, and one county over is only like a 65 cent difference or something. On top of that, you do get the 30% extra totalling a bit over $28/hour if you work with a medically fragile child. :)

Is the amount that Medicaid pays a private nurse or the amount that the nurse gets through an agency?

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Specializes in Peds Homecare.

No, they take their share before determining the RN/LPN rate. The only down fall of being paid that way is that you have to pay your own taxes. I've seen a lot of former co-workers who changed to private duty medicaid, in the paper for not paying taxes. I always worked for an agency because of the tax situation, the agency took care of all of the paperwork/deductions for me.

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Yes - the mother of the child is correct - both in the original hourly salary & that it's actually bumped up 30% - therefore in NY the LPN rate for a medically fragile child is a little over $30. Yes - you will need to take out your own taxes and pay quarterly state & federal taxes. If you work for an agency you will make a speck more than half of that hourly amount. Lots of paperwork involved & keeping track of all hours worked in private duty - financially totally worth it.

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