What payments will be affected by the reduction?

Category Program or Service Area
Inpatient Services
  • Hospital Inpatient Reimbursement
    2% reduction applies
  • Indigent Care Pool Payments
    2% reduction applies
  • Graduate Medical Education - Medicaid for Managed Care patients
    2% reduction applies
  • Hospital Disproportionate Share payments made to governmental general hospitals operated by the State of New York or the State University of New York
    2% reduction applies
  • Indigent Care Adjustments to hospitals operated by the State of New York or the State University of New York
    2% reduction applies
  • Supplemental Medicaid payments to voluntary hospitals
    2% reduction applies
  • Additional Disproportionate Share Payments to voluntary non-profit hospitals
    2% reduction applies
Nursing Home
  • In State Nursing Homes - Alternative proposal accepted to generate commensurate savings through an increase of the cash assessment
  • Out of State Nursing Homes - 2% reduction applies
Non-Institutional Services
  • Assisted Living Programs
    Alternative proposal accepted to generate commensurate savings through a reduction of the State only funding of 'EQUAL'
  • Early Intervention
    2% reduction applies
  • Foster care
    2% reduction applies
  • Freestanding Clinic
    Alternative proposal accepted to generate commensurate savings through a reduction to the APG base rates
  • Home Health
    • CHHA - 2% reduction applies
    • LTHHCP- Alternative proposal accepted to generate commensurate savings through an increase of the cash assessment
  • Home Nursing
    2% reduction applies
  • Hospital Based Outpatient
    2% reduction applies
  • Managed Long Term Care
    Alternative proposal to generate commensurate savings through reducing premium levels
  • Managed Care/ FHP/HMO
    Alternative proposal to generate commensurate savings through reducing premium levels
  • Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programs-MMTP (hospital based and freestanding)
    2% reduction applies
  • Personal Care
    2% reduction applies
  • Pharmacy
    Alternative proposal- interactions amongst existing proposals and other pharmacy programs will generate commensurate savings, resulting in .33% reduction for SFY 11/12 and a 1% or less payment reduction for SFY 12/13
  • Physicians
    • Office place of service - Alternative proposal accepted to generate commensurate savings for office based physicians through an reduction in radiology fees
    • All other places of service
      2% reduction applies
  • Other Services (Dental, Eye/X-ray, etc.)
    • Office place of service - Alternative proposal accepted to generate commensurate savings for office based physicians through an reduction in radiology fees
    • All other places of service
      2% reduction applies to all others; except for Dental fee schedule billing