Joint Legislative Public Hearings on the 2026-2027 Executive Budget Proposal
We share concerns with the advocate community about the impacts of H.R. 1; we support the requests in the Medicaid Matters testimony. Our testimony focuses on items related to funding for legal services and other issues we see our clients facing. In today’s testimony, we respectfully ask you for the following:
1. Increase funding for the Managed Care Consumer Assistance program to $2.767 million to adequately support the growing demand for our services for New York’s most vulnerable populations.
2. Permit Independent Living Centers to be Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Services Fiscal Intermediaries (S.7954 Rivera/A.8355 Paulin)
3. Repeal of the Minimum Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Eligibility Restriction for Personal Care Services and Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Services (S.358 Rivera/A.1198 Paulin)
4. Repeal the 30-month look-back for Community-Based Long-Term Care Medicaid (S.4786 Skoufis/A.1907 Paulin)
5. Invest in Home Care to establish a more cost-effective, consumer friendly, home care model (S.2332-A Rivera/A.2018-A Paulin)
6. Ensure access to gender-affirming care by codifying Medicaid coverage (A.6596-A Rosenthal) and establish a new state-funded program to help cover the cost of gender-affirming care (S.7924 Gonzalez/A.8841 Gonzalez-Rojas)
You can read the full testimony in the available PDF.
