On August 7th, Governor Hochul announced the nine organizations selected to create new, regionally-based Social Care Networks (SCN) under the State’s New York Health Equity Reform (NYHER) 1115 Waiver. SCNs will be responsible for coordinating the delivery of social care services to Medicaid members, including by providing Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN) screening and maintaining a comprehensive network of community-based organizations (CBOs) to support the delivery of “Enhanced” HRSN services to eligible members in need. Such services may include housing, transportation, nutrition, and care management.
The State will provide $500 million in total funding to support SCN start-up and infrastructure costs. The following organizations were selected across nine regions statewide:
- Care Compass Collaborative (Southern Tier)
- Finger Lakes IPA, Inc. (Finger Lakes)
- Health and Welfare Council of Long Island (Long Island)
- Healthy Alliance Foundation, Inc. (Capital Region, Central NY, North Country)
- Hudson Valley Care Coalition, Inc. (Hudson Valley)
- Public Health Solutions (Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn)
- Somos Healthcare Providers, Inc. (Bronx)
- Staten Island Performing Provider System (Staten Island)
- Western New York Integrated Care Collaborative, Inc. (Western NY)
The Governor’s press release is available here. Additional details on the SCN component of the waiver are available here.