Alliance Alert: Don’t Miss the Alliance’s second statewide webinar on the New York Health Equity Reform (NYHER) 1115 Medicaid Demonstration Waiver tomorrow, Thursday, December 12th, from 1-2:15pm! We’re pleased to have the Office of Mental Health join presentations from New York State Department of Health’s Sarina Master, and the Alliance’s Harvey Rosenthal, Brett A Scudder, and Luke Sikinyi.
Background:
Medicaid Demonstration Waivers are a tool to test funding for services typically not covered by Medicaid. These waivers are used by states to prove the effectiveness of offering new services in improving people’s health and lives. New York’s new 1115 Waiver aims to reduce health disparities, such as lessor access to healthy foods among people in low-income communities. The Waiver aims to coordinate health related social need services, which are supports for social needs which have an effect on people’s health such as providing packaged healthy meals for Medicaid members, through the new Social Care Networks.
These networks are groups of providers who are connected through and working under a lead agency to coordinate and provide services to eligible people. While the waiver is complex, our upcoming webinar will help you gain a better understanding of how the Social Care Networks work and what Medicaid members looking for additional services should expect.
See below for more information, including a link to register for the webinar and a brief overview of the 1115 Waiver goals.
