December 5, 2025

The NYS Council is leading a statewide advocacy campaign designed to secure a carve out of MH and SUD outpatient, residential and rehabilitative services from the state’s Medicaid managed care program.  About a month ago we retained Mercury Public Affairs to assist us with the campaign we’ve been waging to compel Governor Hochul to include language in her upcoming executive budget proposal that returns our services to a more efficient and effective reimbursement model and that removes the ‘middlemen’ that are getting rich at the expense of care recipients and providers, saving NYS a minimum of $400M/year.

Today, the Albany Times Union published an OpEd I wrote on behalf of our members and the millions of New Yorkers with Medicaid who deserve better than the broken model for ‘managing’ our services currently in place.  Linked here is a pdf of the OpEd.

IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE and THIS IS THE YEAR TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!

THANK YOU and congratulations to everyone in our mighty army!!  #NYSCouncilAdvocacyWorks!

Here’s a link to the OpEd, 12/5: