If you’re not convinced that now more than ever you need to set and receive the care fees you need and not accept the fees your commissioners want to pay, here are 7 compelling reasons why.
If you aren’t calculating the extra costs for each of your employees, and including them in your care fees, then you are likely paying an extra 20% or more of your overall staff costs.
This extra employer cost should be included in your fees.
On top of that, commissioners expect you to calculate these costs and will question the accuracy of your fees if you don’t.
It’s vital that you add these costs to ensure this significant cost is covered by your care fees.
If you don’t know how to calculate this significant extra cost then read this post as I’ll show you how.
The image to this article is a pretty strong clue as to why you should never accept the low care fees your commissioners from local authorities and ICBs want to pay. If you do accept their fees you will almost certainly go the same way as too many other care providers – you will have to close your business or go insolvent.
Here are 6 specific reasons why you should not accept the fee a commissioner wants to pay but instead set the fee you actually need.
Establish Certainty and Control in your care home business and be one of the few that succeed and not one of the many that fail.
The lack of government support for the care sector goes back many years, but the last 12 months have highlighted just how little support they provide. When will you stop doing what the government and local councils want you to do and do what your care home needs you to do?
