Related Publications

Measuring Quality for Complex Medicaid Beneficiaries in New York      

Published: 2011

This new Medicaid Institute report points to the importance of quality measurement for Medicaid beneficiaries with complex needs — specifically those with multiple chronic conditions, behavioral health conditions, and long-term care needs — as a means of improving care but also as a tool to advance the state’s strategies of reimbursement reform and service delivery redesign for vulnerable and high-cost populations.

New York Medicaid Beneficiaries with Mental Health and Substance Abuse Conditions      

Published: 2011

This report paints a detailed picture of New York's Medicaid beneficiaries receiving care for mental health and substance abuse conditions—who they are, what kind of services they regularly seek, and how they differ from or resemble other Medicaid beneficiaries not receiving the same kinds of care.

Providing Care to Medicaid Beneficiaries with Behavioral Health Conditions: Challenges for New York      

Published: 2011

This report examines policy considerations faced by New York on how to care for Medicaid beneficiaries with mental health and substance abuse conditions.

Medicaid in New York: Current Roles, Recent Experience, and Implications of Federal Reform      

Published: 2010

This Medicaid Institute publication lays out the challenges and opportunities facing New York’s Medicaid program, against a backdrop of a historic federal health care reform law and an unprecedented state budget deficit.

Medicaid Transportation in New York: Background and Options      

Published: 2010

This paper, written by staff from the Lewin Group for the Fund's Medicaid Institute, describes New York's program for providing transportation services to Medicaid beneficiaries, considers the strengths and weaknesses of the state's program, and assesses alternative approaches to improve the program and reduce costs.

Providing Behavioral Health Services to Medicaid Managed Care Enrollees      

Published: 2009

A report from the United Hospital Fund's Medicaid Institute™ concludes that, for Medicaid beneficiaries with chronic physical health conditions and serious and persistent mental illness, the more integration of physical and behavioral health care services the better.

Rethinking Service Delivery for High-Cost Medicaid Patients      

Published: 2009

This report lays out the formidable challenges to improving care for certain high-cost Medicaid beneficiaries, focusing on those with multiple and substantial needs who rely disproportionately on costly hospital inpatient services.

Presentation of "Medicaid Managed Care for Persons with Severe Mental Illness in New York : Challenges and Implications"      

Published: 2008

Delivered at the Third National Medicaid Congress in Washington, DC, this presentation reviews the findings and policy implications from the Medicaid Institute™ report Medicaid Managed Care for Persons with Severe Mental Illness: Challenges and Implications.

Medicaid Managed Care Reexamined      

Published: 2008

This publication is the most comprehensive independent report produced in recent years examining the status of managed care for Medicaid beneficiaries in New York.

Medicaid Managed Care for Persons with Severe Mental Illness: Challenges and Implications      

Published: 2007

Focusing on the latest group of disabled Medicaid beneficiaries required to join a managed care plan, this issue brief from the Fund's Medicaid Institute™ illustrates the demands of care management for Medicaid's most complex and costly cases.

New York's SSI Medicaid Beneficiaries      

Published: 2006

This new issue brief reviews the characteristics and experiences of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Medicaid enrollees—who are poor and elderly or disabled—under the fee-for-service Medicaid program and explores the implications of a new policy mandating that some of these beneficiaries must now enroll in a Medicaid managed care plan.