Jason Helgerson, New York’s Medicaid director, submitted a waiver to CMS asking if it could keep the roughly $17.1 billion in savings over the next decade to “make investments that otherwise would not be possible because of budget constraints,” according to the report.
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In order to receive approval for the waiver, New York Medicaid must show how the money will be used to make the program more cost-efficient and that the reinvestment will not increase costs after the waiver expires in five years.
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