After frantic appeal, state adds $1B to Medicaid program

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Dan Goldberg

On Thursday, May 7, health systems across the state received much-anticipated valuation letters from the state health department, which let them know how much money they’d be receiving from New York’s Medicaid waiver program.

The waiver is Governor Andrew Cuomo’s signature Medicaid initiative, a $8 billion effort to change how health care is delivered to a third of the state’s population.

But many hospitals were shocked to discover they were allocated much less than anticipated, a mistake owing, in part, to the creation of a special project—dubbed, intriguingly, Project 11—that was unavailable to many downstate hospitals. The hospitals had underestimated how much their ineligibility would cost them.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/05/8568779/after-frantic-appeal-state-adds-1b-medicaid-program