New York State Must Intervene in the Behavioral Health Crisis

• By: Lauri Cole, MSW NYS Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
• April 1st, 2026
• behavioral health policy, managed care, MCO accountability, Medicaid reform, mental health access, New York State, substance use disorder, workforce crisis
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New York State is in the middle of a behavioral health crisis. Suicide rates are up over 40% in the last 20 years. Overdose rates are almost four times higher than they were in 2010. During this crisis, Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) paid by the State are taking hundreds of millions of...

Collaborating to Improve Children’s Health Care: The Time is Now

• By: David Woodlock Institute for Community Living (ICL)
• January 1st, 2019
• behavioral health, child welfare, children’s health care, cross-agency collaboration, education services, Medicaid reform, social determinants of health, value-based care
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In 2015, New York State’s Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) issued a “Roadmap for Medicaid Payment Reform” that laid out a path for dramatic and innovative change in the way the state financed and administered healthcare. Initially, MRT took on a volume-based approach to health care through the...