Nursing Home Funding to be Released In December
(Nov. 12, 2025) The Department of Health (DOH) has processed the federal share of the 2024-25 nursing home funding enacted in the 2024-25 State Budget which will be included in Medicaid cycle 2517 scheduled to be released on Dec. 3rd. This represents $142.5 million in outstanding federal share payment of the funding whose state-share was distributed in October of 2024. It is being distributed as a uniform add-on of approximately $6.75 per 2022 directly-billed Medicaid day. Please note that the originally calculated amount of $13.55 (all funds) has been adjusted to $13.53 making the federal share being released now slightly different than the state share paid in 2024. Members who may have outstanding Medicaid liabilities should keep in mind that DOH will net those out of the payments. We expect that DOH will post the Dear Administrator Letter (DAL) and fed share amounts to their public Long Term Care Reimbursement web site shortly. The DAL is available here and the DOH distribution note is copied below.
Contact: Darius Kirstein, dkirstein@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8841
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From: doh.sm.NF.RATES <nfrates@health.ny.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 5:53 PM
Subject: One Time Funding Increase Federal Share
Hello,
Please see attached regarding the Federal Share of the one time funding increase included in the Enacted SFY 2024 Budget.
Thank you