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April 2007
 Health Care Integration Agencies: Notice
Of Medicaid Waiver Foster Care Program Opportunities
The
New York State Bridges to Health (B2H) waiver will allow Medicaid to pay for services
which are supplementary to services available through Medicaid state
plans and foster care. B2H will be implemented over a three year
period with an anticipated enrollment of 3,305 children and youth.
This single program has three separate waiver service areas:
- B2H Serious Emotionally Disturbed
- B2H Developmentally Disturbed
Disabled
- B2H Medically Fragile
These three waivers are designed to
support the population who have complicated family/caregiver
circumstances. The B2H waiver application recognizes these
children's special circumstances in several ways: Health care
integration agencies are qualified to
participate in B2H only if they are foster care providers with
experience in serving people with disabilities. This design
element is intended to intertwine health planning with a
recognition of the child's post-foster care permanency goal.
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