Nursing Home Resident Transition to Managed Care Delayed

The Department of Health has delayed for one month the mandatory enrollment in managed care plans of new, permanent nursing home residents on Medicaid.  The state has yet to receive approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for its plan to transition the nursing home population and benefit into Medicaid managed care. 

In New York City, Long Island and Westchester County, mandatory enrollment in managed care for new, permanent residents has been postponed from June 1 to July 1, 2014. Other areas of the state that were scheduled to make the transition six months later are now scheduled to begin mandatory enrollment on Dec. 1, 2014, a delay of one month as well.  The delay provides the state with additional time to address some of the concerns that LeadingAge NY and other associations have raised regarding the transition.

Contact:  Darius Kirstein, dkirstein@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8841