If New York State transfers Medicaid managed care drug benefits to Medicaid fee for service on Saturday as scheduled, “it will all but eliminate the savings that safety-net providers have realized through the 340B program and the revenues on which covered entities have relied to meet the health care needs of New York’s sickest and poorest residents,” two New York health centers told a state trial court in New York City late last week.
Harlem-based Heritage Health and Housing and Buffalo-based Evergreen Health filed their lawsuit March 24 against the New York State Department of Health and Acting Health Commissioner James MacDonald. They asked the court to grant a temporary restraining order and ultimately, permanently enjoin the state from implementing the move. The state told the court March 27 it will oppose the health centers’ request for a TRO.
If New York State transfers Medicaid managed care drug benefits to Medicaid fee for service on Saturday as scheduled, “it will all but eliminate the savings that safety-net providers have realized through the 340B program and the revenues on which […]
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