DOH has posted the social determinants of health interventions approved to date for VBP arrangements with managed care plans, and LeadingAge National has unveiled a toolkit for evaluating Medicare Advantage supplemental benefit opportunities.

The draft amendment proposal released by DOH on Sept. 17^th seeks a four-year extension and renewal that would invest $8 billion in DSRIP Performance, Workforce Development, Social Determinants of Health, and the Interim Access Assurance Fund and identifies long-term care as a "high-need priority area."

DOH staff described successes of DSRIP and themes for its renewal in presentations at a United Hospital Fund conference. In a letter to DOH, LeadingAge NY pointed to underfunding of long-term/post-acute care under the first phase of DSRIP and called for investment in long-term/post-acute care infrastructure, senior housing with services, workforce, and rural providers.

The three-year Managed Long Term Care Workforce Investment Program will provide up to $245 million in DSRIP funding.

Designated Long Term Care Workforce Investment Organizations (LTC WIOs) will partner with MLTCs to help retrain, retain, and recruit LTC health care workers.

Report highlights accomplishments of the Medicaid Redesign Team.

Network reopening will begin on March 15^th and close on April 1^st.

PPSs may request waivers of regulation for their DSRIP partners, and members can join PPSs.