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Managed Care

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Unless noted below, all persons receiving Medicaid either through Public Assistance or direct Medicaid must choose a Managed Care provider.

These persons can not be enrolled in a Managed Care Plan: 

• People in nursing homes, hospice or the Long Term Home Health Care Program, including long term demonstration programs
• Residents of State psychiatric or residential treatment facilities for children and youth
• People receiving mental health family care services
• People who will be eligible for less than six months (such as seasonal farm workers)
• People who become eligible for Medicaid only after spending some of their income for medical services
• A person with private health insurance if the private insurance costs less than a Medicaid managed care plan
• A premature infant eligible for SSI whose mother was not getting Medicaid when the infant was born
• Homeless persons living in New York City shelters
• Infants living with their mothers in jails or prisons

These people can decide IF they want to join a managed care plan: 

• People with HIV infection
• People in alcohol and drug abuse residential programs
• Pregnant women already getting prenatal care from a physician who does not belong to any Medicaid managed care plan
• Residents in facilities for the mentally retarded and people with similar needs
• Some developmentally disabled people or physically disabled children who receive care at home or in the community through existing waiver programs and those whose needs are similar
• Native Americans
• People with chronic medical conditions being treated by a specialist who is not part of a Medicaid managed care plan
• Children diagnosed with serious emotional disturbance and adults diagnosed with serious mental illness
• People who have a doctor who speaks their primary language and no plan has a doctor who speaks this language

Managed Care Plan Information.

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