The NYS Department of Health has announced an expansion of the NY Independent Assessor Program (NYIAP) to include reassessments beginning January 1, 2024. The planned expansion is too soon and the timeline for rolling it out is too aggressive to provide enough...
Managed Care
2023 Medicaid Managed Care Priorities
The Medicaid Matters Managed Care Workgroup has published its priorities for 2023. Download the document here. These priorities are meant to accompany the coalition's overall 2023 Health Justice Agenda. Repeal Medicaid Redesign Team II Home Care Restrictions and...
Joint letter on the New York Independent Assessor
Consumer advocacy coalitions Medicaid Matters New York and the Coalition to Protect the Rights of New York's Dual Eligibles joined with representatives of Managed Long Term Care plans to send a joint letter to the Hochul administration to air concerns about the...
Consumer advocates issue statement on OSC MLTC report
Medicaid Matters joined nineteen other advocacy groups to issue a statement on the August 2022 report by the Office of the State Comptroller regarding New York's Medicaid Managed Long Term Care program, titled "Medicaid Program - Oversight of Managed Long-Term Care...
Medicaid Matters on managed care procurement proposal
Governor Hochul's Executive budget for 2022-23 included a proposal to require managed care plans to go through a state procurement process in order to administer Medicaid in New York. Medicaid Matters issued a statement on the proposal to advance the interests of...
Managed care focus of Assembly hearing on Medicaid
The Assembly Committee on Health held a hearing on November 1, 2021 entitled "Medicaid Program Efficacy and Sustainability." Medicaid Managed Care was a key focus of the hearing. Read more about the hearing in the Committee's hearing notice. Find Medicaid Matters'...
New York’s potential transition to managed care for people with I/DD
For a number of years, the NYS Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) has explored the possibility of moving everyone with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) to mandatory enrollment in Medicaid Managed Care. This was accelerated...
Focus groups with individuals with I/DD and parents to inform our work
As part of the work with the Managed Care Community of Practice, Medicaid Matters conducted focus groups in June regarding information and outreach related to the State’s transition to Medicaid Managed Care for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities...
Education and outreach for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families
New York State is implementing a system of Medicaid Managed Care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). The New York Alliance for Inclusion and Innovation is currently undertaking a project to prepare providers of services...
MLTC Report
Mis-Managed Care: Fair Hearing Decisions on Medicaid Home Care Reductions by Managed Long Term Care Plans, June-December 2015 With the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, MMNY issued a report to shed light on the findings of an extensive...