Alliance Alert: Don’t Miss the Alliance’s April statewide webinars on the New York Health Equity Reform (NYHER) 1115 Medicaid Demonstration Waiver on April 7th, 1-2:30pm and April 8th, 2-3:30pm! We’re pleased to offer presentations from Emily Engel, Director of the Bureau of Social Care and Community Supports at the Office of Health Insurance Programs of the New York State Department of Health (DOH), Regional Social Care Network (SCN) representatives, Harvey Rosenthal, CEO of The Alliance for Rights and Recovery, Brett A Scudder, and Luke Sikinyi along with representatives from the Office of Mental Health (OMH).
Key Topics to Be Covered Include:
- Overview of the 1115 Waiver
- Explanation of the SCNs and their role in Waiver Implementation
- Discussion of the SCN services, including Screening and Navigation and Level 2 Health Related Social Needs Enhanced Services
- How Medicaid members and Community Based Organizations can best engage with SCNs
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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.
