New York Submits Medicaid 1115 Waiver To Address Health Disparities

On August 24, 2021, the New York State Department of Health (DOH) submitted a Medicaid 1115 waiver demonstration proposal seeking new Medicaid funding to address health disparities and systemic delivery systems issues highlighted by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). DOH requested $17 billion in new Medicaid funding over five years to address health disparities.

This federal-state partnership uses multi-faceted and linked initiatives to change the way the Medicaid program integrates and pays for social care and health care in New York. Benefits of the demonstration proposal include full integration of social care and health care into the state . . .