https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/ https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/97/ Background. The 2024-25 NYS Budget required all 280,000 Medicaid recipients who have CDPAP services to switch their "Fiscal Intermediary" (FI") the agency that manages payroll and benefits for their Personal Assistants ("PA") to a new "single FI"... Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:48:44 -0400 News https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/68/ The Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program at NYLAG sends out periodic updates to interested people about developments in Medicaid in New York State affecting seniors and people with disabilities, with an emphasis on people who rely on Medicaid for... Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:40:27 -0400 News https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/100/ The Budget Reconciliation law known as HR1 enacted the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law July 4, 2025. The law imposes massive cuts in Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, and immigrant eligibilty for these and other public programs. The... Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:05:56 -0400 News https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/99/ NYLAG submitted testimony at the NYS Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the Proposed 2026 Executive Budget concerning Health and Medicaid. The hearing was held on February 10, 2026. Read about NYLAG's testimony here Download a copy of... Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:44:17 -0500 News https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/85/ This article gives updates on the Medicaid changes enacted in the 2020 NYS Budget under the "Medicaid Redesign Team II" or MRT-2. Though enached in 2020, one of these cuts - the Minimum ADL Thresholds for home care - was just implemented in Sept.... Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:36:09 -0500 News https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/98/ The New York State Department of Health (“DOH”) has launched a new program to modernize how certain Medicaid applicants/recipients will apply for and renew their Medicaid benefits. This modernization project is called the Medicaid Eligibility and... Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:22:36 -0500 News https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/78/ This news article has updates on Managed Long Term Care in NYS. KEY MLTC CONTACTS TO FILE COMPLAINTS And Websites SKIP DOWN TO LATEST NEWS NYS Dept of Health Complaint Unit for MLTC and MAP problems- MLTCComplaints@health.ny.gov (since ... Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:00:58 -0400 News https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/86/ Since March 2020, special protections guaranteed Continuous Coverage for anyone who HAD Medicaid In March 2020 or obtained Medicaid since then. These "Maintenance of Effort" (MOE) protections are being phased out while every Medicaid recipient goes... Fri, 02 Aug 2024 21:33:13 -0400 News https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/96/ NYS Is moving forward to overhaul the entire CDPAP program, requiring all 200,000 _+ consumers who have CDPAP services to switch their Fiscal Intermediary (FI) to the single FI that NYS has hired - Public Partnerships LLC. This includes members... Fri, 31 May 2024 20:05:46 -0400 News https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/95/ Collections of alleged Medicaid overpayments, which were mostly paused during the Public Health Emergency, have undergone significant changes. This Q&A document by The Legal Aid Society explains what we currently know about investigations and... Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:07:58 -0400 News https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/94/ Effective 3/1/24, the non-emergency transportation benefit has been carved out from Managed Long Term Care. This does not include Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) plans. This means that Managed Long Term Care members will no... Wed, 06 Mar 2024 12:44:25 -0500 News https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/93/ See this new article to learn about the expanded Medicaid coverage for immigrants Age 65 and over who are undocumented. Because of their immmigration status, they were previously only eligible for Emergency Medicaid. See more here. Note that... Tue, 06 Feb 2024 10:24:57 -0500 News https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/91/ New York’s Medicaid program expanded coverage of dental benefits as of January 31, 2024 as the result of the settlement of the Ciaramella v. McDonald case (originally Ciaramella v. Zucker). This article provides detailed information about the... Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:46:37 -0500 News https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/90/ 2/10/23 UPDATE - NYS Dept. of Health updated the income and resource limits based on the 2023 Federal Poverty Levels. See NYS DOH GIS 23 MA/02 - 2023 Federal Poverty Levels and ATTACHMENT New York State Income and Resource Standards for Non-MAGI... Tue, 25 Apr 2023 21:28:52 -0400 News https://nyhealthaccess.org/news/92/ This is an archive of past NYS guidance on the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. This information was previously part of the news article on COVID-19 and Medicaid in NYS. For current guidance see that article here. Nursing Home Guidance and Data... Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:21:40 -0400 News