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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
- 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.
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
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%
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.
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
MRT Capital Projects
- 37 funded capital projects
- 12 are currently operational
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Preliminary Evaluation Results
22 2 4 6 8 10 12
- 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)
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