Caring for New Yorkers Through Partnerships with Managed Long Term Care Plans
April 5, 2024 - As lawmakers in Albany weigh various ways to control spending and improve the quality of health care in the Empire State, one of the most important items on their plate is the future of the state’s Managed Long Term Care (MLTC) program.
Proposal to scrap managed long term care plans will threaten New York’s most vulnerable
As a leading home care provider in New York, Royal Care stands shoulder-to-shoulder with our partners in Managed Long Term Care plans, jointly committed to enhancing the lives of New York’s most vulnerable residents. Our collaboration with MLTC plans is not merely administrative; it’s a lifeline for those who depend on us for essential services, enabling them to maintain independence and dignity in the comfort of their own homes.
Op-ed | Growing Consensus: Eliminating Managed Long Term Care Plans is Bad for Vulnerable New Yorkers
As the debate around the state budget in Albany progresses, New York’s Managed Long Term Care (MLTC) Program has been targeted for cuts, with proposing eliminating the program altogether. More than 280,000 elderly and disabled New Yorkers rely on the program for the critical, full-time care that allows them to live independently and remain in their homes and communities.
New York Must Reject Flawed Proposal to Scrap Managed Long-Term Care Plans
It is an annual routine as consistent as the Super Bowl. Every February, lawmakers gather in Albany during somber budget hearings and look at the atate’s Medicaid program to find areas to cut corners and save money. The routine is as predictable as it is dangerous for the vulnerable New Yorkers who rely on these programs for care — and for the workers across the state who provide that care.
Op-Ed: Eliminating MLTC Plans Would Slash Quality Care
As lawmakers gathered in Albany to hear Gov. Hochul give her annual State of the State speech and propose a state budget, storm clouds were gathering here in Riverdale — and not just the kind that brought the most recent snowstorms.
Legislative Proposal to Overhaul Home Care Payment System will Cost the State Billions, Health Plans Say
Health plans and providers are pushing back on a legislative proposal that would overhaul how the state pays for home care, stating that it would cost — not save — New York upwards of $3 billion, according to a new analysis.
Managed Long Term Care Plans Fight New York Bill to Eliminate Them
A broad group of stakeholders from across New York on Thursday sent a letter to the state Senate and Assembly Health Committee chairs, asking them to drop their support for a bill to replace the state’s managed long-term care programs with a fee-for-service system.
Testimony Of The New York State Coalition Of Managed Long Term Care Plans On The Governor’s Proposed SFY 2025 Health And Medicaid Budget
Submitted for the Joint Legislative Budget Hearing on Health.
Senate Finance Committee Chair Liz Krueger and Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chair Helene E. Weinstein presiding.
Op-Ed | Lawmakers should put patients first by rejecting misguided bill to eliminate manage care plans
New York’s managed long term care (MLTC) plans provide critical support that helps nearly 280,000 people with disabilities and older residents who need full-time care live as independently as possible when they can no longer perform everyday activities on their own.
As NYS Faces Budget Deficit, Protect the Health Care Approaches That Work
Care managers, assessment nurses and home care workers are superheroes who find innovative solutions to complex problems. While that is the case across the health care sector, it is particularly true for those who work with New Yorkers enrolled in Managed Long Term Care (MLTC) plans.
Medicaid Fight Looms
Managed long-term care plans are pushing back at efforts by state lawmakers to redirect spending – setting up a potentially bruising battle in Albany when the six-month legislative session begins in January.
"Home Care Savings & Reinvestment Act” Flawed, Irresponsible for New York’s Most Vulnerable Residents
For older New Yorkers on Medicaid, managed long-term care plans can play a critical role in the health care services they provide. We examine the industry’s place in the health care landscape, including the delivery of home care, with Joe Twardy, president of Nascentia Health’s health plans.