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Health + Housing: Unlocking Potential in New York State Presentation to National Academy for State Health Policy July 24, 2017 Rethinking Care for Medicaid's Highest-Need, Highest- Cost Populations Addressing the Social Determinants of


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Presentation to National Academy for State Health Policy July 24, 2017

Health + Housing: Unlocking Potential in New York State

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  • Rethinking Care for Medicaid's Highest-Need, Highest-

Cost Populations

  • Addressing the Social Determinants of Health
  • Housing is Health Care!
  • Targeting “high-cost” Medicaid members
  • Demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of supportive

housing

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Medicaid Redesign Team Supportive Housing Initiative Capital Rent Support Services Service and Operating Tracking and Evaluation

  • Medicaid Redesign Investment: $641

Million over 7 years.

  • Funding is targeted to high-cost

Medicaid members.

  • MRT Supportive Housing investment

targets capital construction, rental subsidies and supports, and

  • perating dollars.
  • Outcomes, measures, research and

evaluation are key components.

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MRT Supportive Housing: High Cost Medicaid Members

High-Cost Medicaid Members Individuals transitioning

  • ut of nursing

homes Chronic Homeless with HIV/AIDS, Mental Health and/or Substance Use Disorders Chronically Addicted Homeless or at risk of homelessness Developmentally Disabled Seniors in Shelter or low- income seniors in the community Physically Disabled Homeless

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MRT Supportive Housing Initiative - Accomplishments

  • Over the past six years, the MRT Supportive Housing Initiative:
  • Provided supportive housing units to more populations (“high cost Medicaid users”)

throughout the State

  • Improved coordination across agencies (HCR, OTDA, OMH, OASAS, AIDS

Institute, DOH Division of Long Term Care, OPWDD)

  • Developed 19 rental subsidy and supportive services programs statewide
  • Added 861 units to the state’s supportive housing inventory, with a projected 621

more units in the pipeline for 2018

  • Served over 11,000 high-cost, high-need Medicaid members
  • Reduced hospital inpatient days by 40% and Medicaid health expenditures by 15%
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Clinical Characteristics

  • 66% have a serious mental illness
  • 46% have a substance use disorder
  • 40% are HIV+
  • 53% have one or more other chronic medical

conditions

  • 26% have at least three of these diagnosis

types

Source: McGinnis et al, “Medicaid Redesign Team Supportive Housing Evaluation: Utilization Report 1,” prepared by the SUNY Research Foundation for NYS DOH, May 2017. Note: Not shown are substance use + chronic medical condition (3%) and severe mental illness + HIV (4%). Note: To obtain total percentage of participants with a given diagnosis, sum all percentages that fall into the relevant circle (but may not exactly match text due to rounding). Circles are not sized proportionately.

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MRT Supportive Housing Initiative

  • Medicaid Redesign Investment: $641 Million
  • $75 million in 2012-13
  • $86 million in 2013-14
  • $100 million in 2014-15
  • $127 million in 2015-16
  • $83 million in 2016-17 (+$44m bonded capital)
  • $63 million in 2017-2018 (+$44m bonded capital)
  • $107 million in 2018-2019
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MRT Capital Projects

  • 37 funded capital projects
  • 12 are currently operational
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Metro East 99th Street

  • 175 units built during the 2013 decommissioning of the Goldwater Hospital as a housing option for physically

disabled adults who did not qualify for existing New York City supportive housing programs

  • Serves elderly or disabled adults referred from the former Coler-Goldwater facility and other nursing homes and

hospitals owned by New York City Health + Hospitals

  • There was a 170% return on investment if Medicaid’s modest, one-time $7.5 million capital investment is

amortized over 10 years. In year one, residents’ average Medicaid expenses fell by $11,800 per person.

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Access to Home for Medicaid

ATH provides grants to eligible applicants to make accessibility modifications to existing owner-

  • ccupied or rental dwelling units occupied by

persons with disabilities that also receive Medicaid assistance.

  • Eligibility Criteria
  • Occupant is on Medicaid
  • Occupant is physically disabled or has

substantial difficulty with activities of daily living (ADL)

  • Dwelling unit is the occupant’s primary

residence or will be the occupant’s primary residence after modifications are completed

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AIDS Institute Rental Subsidies

  • Rental subsidies and housing retention services for individuals living with

HIV/AIDS in upstate New York

  • Housing Specialists may receive referrals from Health Home care

managers to assist individuals with finding and maintaining housing

  • Program began in 2013
  • 7 current providers with capacity of 200 rental subsidies
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Eviction Prevention for Vulnerable Adults

  • Rental subsidies for elderly or disabled households in New York City who are

at risk of eviction

  • Program began in 2013
  • 265 people served to date
  • Partnership with New York State Office of Temporary and Disability

Assistance and New York City Department of Homeless Services

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Health Homes Rental Subsidy Program

  • Rental subsidies and services for homeless
  • r unstably housed Medicaid members

enrolled in New York State’s Health Home program

  • Health Home enrollees have two chronic

conditions, serious mental illness, or HIV/AIDS

  • Program began in 2014
  • 10 providers statewide have served 445

people to date

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Homeless Senior and Disabled Placement Pilot

  • Rental subsidies for Health Home eligible SSI recipients living in New York City

homeless shelters

  • Program began in 2013
  • 231 people served to date
  • Partnership with New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance and

New York City Department of Homeless Services

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Mental Health Crisis/Step Down

  • An option for individuals with mental illness in behavioral health crisis who can be safely

diverted from inpatient hospitalization

  • Step-down services to individuals who are discharged from the hospital but require a

higher level of support and services than can be provided in their permanent residence

  • 10 agencies have up to 3 beds each for short-term stays (<1 month) with 24/7 peer or

clinical staffing

  • Program began in 2015
  • 368 people served to date
  • Partnership with NYS Office of Mental Health
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Nursing Home to Independent Living

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  • Provides an array of services intended to establish independence, wellness and self-

management:

  • Rental subsidies
  • Community Transitional Services (CTS)
  • Environmental modifications
  • Tenancy sustaining services and preventative health services
  • Participants are elderly or physically disabled; in a nursing home or eligible for nursing facility

level of care; and homeless or unstably housed

  • Pilot began in 2014
  • Two providers serve 230 participants in Syracuse and Long Island
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Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services Rental Subsidies and Supports

  • Rental subsidies on a Housing First basis, intensive case management, and job

development and counseling services; funding for clinical supervision of direct service staff

  • Single adults with a substance use disorder who are homeless, unstably housed, or at

risk of homelessness; who are Medicaid enrolled; and who meet frequent utilizer criteria (at least two inpatient hospitalizations, five emergency room visits, or one inpatient hospitalization and four emergency room visits in the previous 12 months)

  • Program began in 2013
  • 18 providers have served 613 clients statewide
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Office of Mental Health Rental Subsidies

  • Rental subsidies and housing case management in scattered-site supportive housing
  • Serves single, Health-Home-eligible adults with a serious mental illness who are either

referred by a Health Home, are a resident in a NYS OMH Psychiatric Center or OMH-

  • perated residential program, or are discharged from an Article 28 or Article 31 hospital.

Individuals must also be unstably housed or be individuals for whom housing would assist in a hospital diversion

  • Program began in 2013
  • 39 providers have served 1151 people to date
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Office for People with Developmental Disabilities Rental Subsidies

  • Rental subsidies and services for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities

who move from certified residential settings with continuous supervision (“supervised” model residences) to more independent, less restrictive housing (supportive model certified residences or uncertified private apartments with support services such as community habilitation and personal care)

  • Helps the State achieve its Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)/Olmstead Implementation

Plan goals in addition to reducing Medicaid spending

  • Program began in 2013
  • 11 providers have served 70 served people to date
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Olmstead Housing Subsidy

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  • Provides the following services to help participants live safely

and independently in the community:

  • Rental subsidies
  • Community Transitional Services (CTS)
  • Environmental modifications
  • Serves elderly or chronically disabled adult Medicaid members

who have spent at least 120 consecutive days in a nursing home over the most recent two-year period, are homeless or unstably housed, and have the ability to live safely on the community

  • Program began in 2016
  • 50 participants housed to date
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Special Needs-Assisted Living Program (SN-ALP)

  • Assisted Living Programs (ALPs) serve persons who are medically eligible for nursing home

placement but serve them in a less medically intensive, lower cost setting. SN-ALPs serve additional, special-needs populations through training and capital improvements.

  • Program began in 2017
  • 6 capital and 5 training projects awarded grants through competitive procurement
  • Sample awarded projects:
  • Memory care unit
  • Specialized care for traumatic brain injury patients
  • Diabetic care program
  • Safety monitoring system to prevent falls and wandering
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Preliminary Evaluation Results

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  • Avg. # of

inpatient days

  • Avg. # of ED

visits 10.1 3.1 6.1 2.3

Decreased Inpatient, ED Use

12 Months Pre-Housing 12 Months Post-Housing 0.0% 2.0% 4.0% 6.0% 8.0% 10.0% Any psychiatric inpatient Any inpatient rehab 10.0% 7.2% 7.3% 4.0%

Decreased Percentage of Recipients with Behavioral Health Admissions

12 Months Pre-Housing 12 Months Post-Housing

Study Design

  • Contract with the Research Foundation for SUNY
  • 2071 participants who enrolled before January 1, 2015 with

full Medicaid coverage for 1 year pre and post enrollment.

  • Medicaid claims data for 12 month pre- and post-periods
  • 6 or 9 months’ data for 182 people in newer programs
  • Future studies will include a comparison group

Findings

  • 40% reduction in inpatient days
  • 26% reduction in emergency department visits
  • 44% fewer patients with inpatient substance use rehab

admissions; 27% fewer with inpatient psych admissions

  • 15% reduction in overall Medicaid health expenditures

($6,130 per person)

  • Top decile of enrollees had average Medicaid savings of

$23,000-$52,000 per person per year (varied by program)

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To learn more about MRT Supportive Housing, please visit our website at:

  • http://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/redesign/supportive_housing_initiatives.htm
  • Or email us at mrtsupportivehousing@health.ny.gov