Our Most Vulnerable Health Plan Members Need Us More Than Ever! Here’s What You Can Do.

The New York State budget is being finalized—and funding for our Managed Long-Term Care (MLTC) Health Plan that allows low-income Medicaid older New Yorkers and people living with disabilities to receive care at home is at serious risk.

Here’s what you can do:

First, contact your elected officials. It is easy to do—just click here and put in your name and address. It will automatically populate with your elected officials and then you tap “send.” Please take a few minutes to help our vulnerable health plan members.

Then tune in to Dan’s CEO Zoom on Tuesday. On Tuesday, April 21, at 8:30 a.m. Dan will cover this and other organizational updates.

And finally, catch up on what’s going on. over the past few months, CEO Dan Savitt, our Government Affairs team, as well as other team members from across the organization have ramped up our VNS Health advocacy efforts in Albany.

To learn more, here are links to some recent news items that explain it all:

• Click here to listen to a conversation earlier this month between Dan and State Senator Cordell Cleare’s on The Capital Pressroom, a WCNY Radio Production.
• To read Senator Cleare’s op-ed article in City Limits News, published on April 10, click here.
• Read another recent article in Amsterdam News featuring Senator Cleare and our own VP of Care Management for Health Plans Esther Conteh by clicking here.

Dan also authored similar op-ed articles outlining how the proposed budget is threatening access to care in Central and Western New York state.

• To read Dan’s recent op-ed in the Buffalo News, click here.
• And to read his op-ed in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, click here.