CategorySamples of Our Work

The U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program. This program supports innovative, community-based initiatives to improve the health status of infants, children, adolescents, and families in rural and underserved communities by increasing their access to…

As part of our ongoing effort to provide comprehensive resources on policy changes during the coronavirus pandemic, SPG has put together a review of COVID-19 related benefits for the major downstate New York Medicaid managed care organizations. These changes include member cost-sharing, telehealth benefits, and behavioral health benefits. SPG’s COVID-19 MCO benefit grid is attached.

On April 3rd, the $178 billion State Budget for State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2021, which began April 1st, was passed by the New York State Legislature and signed by the Governor. Due to economic impacts from the COVID-19 crisis, the State anticipates a revenue shortfall of $10 billion and an overall budget deficit of up…

On March 30th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a wide-ranging set of temporary regulatory waivers offering new flexibilities in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). The waivers pertain mostly to Medicare rules, with some Medicaid components. They went into effect nationwide immediately and will last for the duration of…

On March 26th, the Senate passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, an approximately $2.2 trillion relief package to address the rapidly growing COVID-19 public health emergency, on a vote of 96-0. The four missing Senators were in isolation due to confirmed or potential COVID-19 infection. The House then passed the law…

On March 5th, the New York State Department of Health Division of Workforce Transformation will begin accepting applications for the Doctors Across New York Physician Loan Repayment and Physician Practice Support programs. These programs provide funding to help recruit physicians to and encourage them to remain in medically underserved areas of the State. Up to…

On March 9th, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released coordinated rules that establish significant new  requirements for health IT developers, providers and payers to allow wide-ranging access to data through public application programming interfaces (APIs) and prevent information blocking. The final rules are designed…

On January 30th, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment released a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for the Residential Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women grant program. Under this grant, providers provide treatment for substance use disorders to pregnant and postpartum women in programs in which: The women…

On February 3rd, the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) released a Request for Applications (RFA) for funding to purchase a mobile treatment vehicle with the primary purpose of expanding access to addiction treatment services in underserved regions of New York State. OASAS will provide up to $2.25 million in total…

On January 21st, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the 2020 Opioid-Impacted Family Support Program. This program supports training programs to increase the number of peer support specialists and other behavioral health-related paraprofessionals who provide services to children whose parents are impacted by opioid use disorders…