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In Medicaid Waiver, a Challenge to Connect, Collaborate and Create
New York's safety net providers have a new impetus and incentive to collaborate on redesigning how they serve Medicaid patients - if they can make all the moving pieces work.
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New York’s safety net providers have a new impetus and incentive to collaborate on redesigning how they serve Medicaid patients if they can make all the moving pieces work.
After gradually paring back the growth rate of New York’s $54 billion Medicaid program, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has received a waiver from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to invest $8 billion in a larger redesign over the next five years, using money from what is estimated to be $17 billion in federal shared savings.
The $8 billion will go toward shoring up struggling organizations, with $500 million in temporary support, and will help with capital investments, with $1 billion slated for information technology, home health and workforce development.
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Source: Government HealthIT
Empowering Community Health Through Wellness and Faith
April 23rd 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. In the third episode, Camille Clarke-Smith, EdD, MS, CHES, CPT, discusses approaching community health holistically through spiritual and community engagement.
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Dr Dalia Rotstein: Physicians Must Be Aware MS Affects People of All Backgrounds
April 24th 2024Dalia Rotstein, MD, MPH, emphazises the importance of awareness that multiple sclerosis (MS) impacts patients from various backgrounds as clinicians think through ways to improve access to care and research efforts in MS.
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Overcoming Employment Barriers for Lasting Social Impact: Freedom House 2.0 and Pathways to Work
April 16th 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. Welcome to our second episode, in which we learn all about Freedom House 2.0 and the Pathways to Work program.
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