Policy & Budget Agenda

Download our agenda here. Find our testimony to the Assembly Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees on the 2024-2025 Executive budget here. Our one-pager highlighting our positions on the Governor’s proposed 2024-2025 budget is here. Find a summary of the Governor’s adult mental health proposals for 2024 by the Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project here. New York State will soon embark on extensive health equity reform through the approval of an amendment to the Medicaid 1115…

Medicaid Matters New York lays out the following policy and budget priorities to enhance and strengthen New York’s Medicaid program for all who need it. Download the document here. Strengthen Medicaid managed care New York has administered Medicaid through managed care plans since the mid-1990s.  In 2011, the Department of Health was authorized to expand managed care to people and benefits previously excluded or exempt from mandatory managed care participation.  Over the years,…

Here is what New York needs to do to reach greater health equity: Expand access to public health insurance programs and services New York must work toward greater health equity by providing needed coverage for older adults, people with disabilities, immigrants, people who were pregnant, and children. Equity for older adults and people with disabilitiesRaise the Medicaid income level for those age 65+ and adults with disabilities from 84% of the Federal poverty level to 138%Eliminate the asset…

To reach greater equity and protect the Medicaid safety net and the people who rely on it, New York State must: Keep Medicaid budgeting within the process set in the State Constitution to allow for full legislative and public discourse; if stakeholder bodies are seated to make recommendations on Medicaid, it is incumbent on the state to ensure substantial representation of people who are served by the Medicaid program;Eliminate the Medicaid global spending cap in favor of adopting a Medicaid…

Download our 2020 Vision document here. Medicaid Matters released this statement regarding the Governor’s Executive budget. The Medicaid Matters Steering Committee put out this statement in response to the seating of a Medicaid Redesign Team. The Medicaid Matters Coordinator, Lara Kassel, submitted testimony on January 29th at the Joint Legislative Budget Hearing on the Executive Budget on Health/Medicaid. A flier was generated to provide “an alternate…

Through payment and delivery system reform and other initiatives, New York State has made tremendous strides to improve its Medicaid program, while also reigning in spending.  However, these major initiatives have not been without harm to consumers and communities across the state.  State budget projections are uncertain; there are threats at the federal level to dramatically change the Medicaid program as we know it; and a single payer health system may be on the horizon.  New…