Available at selected sites around the state, the "New York State Caregiver Guide" provides informal caregivers with information about communicating with health care providers, legal and financial planning, and building a caregiving team.

 Updates from LeadingAge national ADHC Kitchen Cabinet meeting and more in ADHC Update. 

In a Dear Administrator Letter, DOH announced that MLTC plan contracts with LHCSAs that are intended to continue care for new enrollees who transfer from a plan that has closed, merged with another plan, or narrowed its service area are not counted in determining compliance with the MLTC LHCSA network cap.

Declaration triggers the requirement that all personnel, as defined in the regulation, not vaccinated against influenza for the current influenza season wear a surgical or procedure mask while in areas where patients or residents are typically present.

In a webinar, DOH provided guidance for the second year of VBP under MLTC, VBP performance adjustments and penalties for MLTC plans, and its strategy for nursing home VBP in 2019.

Milliman report explains changes to Medicare Advantage Plans.