System Change and Service Providers: Opportunities and Challenges in Addressing Unmet Needs

• By: Andrea Smyth, MPA NYS Coalition for Children’s Behavioral Health Jason Lippman The Coalition for Behavioral Health
• January 1st, 2019
• access to services, care coordination, children’s behavioral health, community-based care, managed care, Medicaid, service expansion, workforce shortages
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In 2011, a priority of New York’s Governor Andrew M. Cuomo was Medicaid redesign, with the substantive presence of behavioral health services in both the Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) and the subsequent Delivery System Reform Incentive Program (DSRIP). The focus was to reduce inpatient...