MRT II Executive Summary Scorecard

Executive Summary of Proposals
March 19, 2020

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(State Share -- $ millions) FY21 FY22
Medicaid Deficit $3,079 $3,515
Medicaid Savings Target ($2,500) ($2,722)
FY20 Medicaid Savings Plan ($851) ($793)
MRT Recommendations ($1,649) ($2,265)
Hospital Actions ($399) ($459)
     Increase the progressivity of Indigent Care Pool distributions ($157) ($157)
     Strengthen NYC Health + Hospitals ($186) ($193)
     Realize additional savings without impacting core hospital operations ($56) ($109)
Care Management Actions ($43) ($70)
     Implement Health Home Improvement, Efficiency, Consolidation and Standardization ($33) ($37)
     Promote Further Adoption of Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) ($6) ($18)
     Promote Effective and Comprehensive Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease ($5) ($14)
     Promote Maternal Health to Reduce Maternal Mortality $1 ($1)
Mainstream Managed Care Actions ($41) ($8)
     Promote Encounter Data Accountability and Partially Restore Mainstream Managed Care (MMC) Quality Incentive Pools ($47) ($26)
     Enact statutory reforms intended to reduce inappropriate payment denials $9 $37
     Standardized Medicaid Managed Care Prior Authorization Data Set $0 ($1)
     Explore new efforts to facilitate Value Based Payment arrangements $0 ($9)
     Explore boroughwide or regionwide integrated delivery system and global budget demonstrations for the Bronx and rural areas $0 ($5)
     Authorize Electronic Notifications ($2) ($5)
Long Term Care Actions ($715) ($1,147)
     Promote Encounter Data Accountability and Partially Restore Managed Long Term Care Quality (MLTC) Incentive Pools ($67) ($55)
     Institute an HCBS Eligibility Lookback Period of 60 Months (to be consistent with look-back for nursing homes) ($20) ($24)
     Eliminate Spousal and Legally Responsible Relative Refusal ($2) ($2)
     Change Eligibility Criteria for Personal Care Services and Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) and Eligibility Criteria for Enrollment in MLTC Partial Plans ($154) ($360)
     Make Administrative Reforms to the Personal Care Services (PCS) and CDPAS Program ($82) ($263)
     Implement Comprehensive CDPAP Programmatic Reforms and Efficiencies ($33) ($41)
     Provide Integrated Care to Dual Eligible Members ($5) ($42)
     Reform the Fair Hearing Process $0 ($1)
     Delay Implementation of the Expansion of Community First Choice Option (CFCO) Services ($47) ($47)
     Cap Statewide MLTC Enrollment Growth at a Target Percentage ($215) ($215)
     Enhance Wage Parity Enforcement $0 $0
     Issue a Request for Offer for LHCSAs $0 $0
     Reduce Workforce Retraining and Retention Funding ($45) ($45)
     Require all UAS Community Health Assessments (CHA) and reassessments to be conducted by an Independent Assessor (IA) ($8) ($16)
     Implement Changes to the Community Spouse Resource Amount ($6) ($7)
     Offer Non-Medicaid Long-Term Care Programs to Encourage Delayed Enrollment in Medicaid including a private pay option for consumers to purchase on NYSoH $0 $0
     Reduce Nursing Home Capital Funding ($30) ($30)
Pharmacy Actions ($71) ($214)
     Fully Carve Out of the Pharmacy Benefit from Managed Care to Fee-for-Service (FFS) $11 ($125)
     Reduce Drug Cap Growth By Enhancing Purchasing Power to Lower Drug Costs ($46) ($43)
     Limit Coverage for Over-the-Counter Drugs (OTCs) ($14) ($19)
     Eliminate Prescriber Prevails ($22) ($27)
Transportation Actions ($94) ($244)
Program Integrity ($60) ($74)
     Modernize Regulations Relating to Program Integrity ($60) ($67)
     Modernize Medicaid Third Party Health Insurance $0 ($6)
General Savings ($224) ($55)
     Additional ATB Rate Reduction ($219) ($50)
     Shift Water Fluoridation funding to Capital ($5) ($5)
Health Information Technology ($8) ($13)
     Expand telehealth services ($3) ($10)
     Modernize Medicaid information technology and expand access to data ($5) ($3)
Social Determinants of Health $4 $17
     Advance Social Determinants of Health (SDH) to Improve Care and Reduce Medicaid Costs $4 $17
Total Spending Reductions ($2,500) ($3,058)
Remaining Amount to Target $0 ($336)

Confidential 3/19/2020

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