New York Issues Medicaid Reform Plan—Moving Medicaid Administration From Counties to State Authority & New Rate-Setting Process on the List

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News New York is considering ways to reform the management of its Medicaid program to control costs and provide care more efficiently. A key problem for the state is that 15% of its Medicaid enrollees are “dual eligibles”—enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid—and this group accounts for 40% of the $50 billion the state spends annually on Medicaid. A plan developed by New York Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch made the following four recommendations: The state should change the process by which Medicaid rates of reimbursement to health care providers are . . .