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County says Hudson Valley social care coalition will begin Medicaid demonstration; inpatient opioid treatment expected to return
Summary
County staff told the Health and Human Services Committee that the first wave of the Hudson Valley Care Coalition’s social care network will start next week under a Medicaid demonstration, and that plans are advancing to reopen an inpatient addiction treatment facility at Garnet Health Catskills.
Sullivan County staff told the Health and Human Services Committee they expect the first wave of the Hudson Valley Care Coalition’s social care network to begin next week under the county’s Medicaid demonstration, enabling Medicaid payment for services such as nutrition, nonmedical transportation, transitional housing and case management.
The program is part of an 11/15 demonstration referenced in the departmental update. County staff said the coalition has engaged county social services, mental health and public-health staff and nonprofit…
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