New Coverage for Health-Related Social Needs Services Under NY’s Approved 1115 Medicaid Waiver Amendment

Among other things, this most recent demonstration waiver provides significant federal funding to New York for health-related social needs (HRSN) services to be delivered through nine regional social care networks (SCNs) over the next three years.[2] The waiver also provides approximately $500 million for further expansion of the HRSN infrastructure, which includes the creation of the SCNs.[3] These HRSN services will be reimbursed via Medicaid managed care organizations that will contract with the SCNs.