Fax numbers, e-mail addresses and mail addresses to submit Medicaid renewals, applications, and other requests. June 3, 2025. Contacts are/will be added to this HRA contact list posted at http://health.wnylc.com/health/entry/216/

Use this worksheet to convert lifetime total amount received in Holocaust reparations / restitution from foreign currencies (Deutschmarks and Euros) into U.S. Dollars. This is for purposes of taking advantage of the exemption of saved reparations payments from the resource test for Federally-funded means-tested benefits, like Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income. Updated monthly.

NYLAG update presented in the 30th Elder Law Forum on May 15, 2025 sponsored by Pierro, Connor & Strauss LLP. Recording of this presentation will be posted soon. View PDF that includes all presentations at https://www.pierrolaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Elder-Law-Forum-Presentation-2025.pdf.
TOPICS in this presentation:
1 -NYC Medicaid Cases Closing if Renewals Not Returned – 20,000 in first batch!
2- CDPAP Transition to PPL as Single “FI”
---Status, advocacy, health insurance, what is driving this?
3 -Recent & Upcoming MLTC Plan Mergers – Alert re Transition Rights
4 NYS Fair Hearing Backlog- “PHD” process 2025
5 Federal Medicaid Defense
6 On the horizon
---MECM – Medicaid applications moving online!
---Pending Home Care Restrictions passed in 2020 (Lookback, ADL Thresholds)

HRA Medicaid Renewal Form for Disabled, Aged, & Blind (DAB) recipients - 12/6/2023 version
(1) a 2-page Renewal Notification letter with the deadline to return the renewal, which is always the 10th of the 2nd month after the notification,
(2) "STOP ACT NOW" alert intended to alert consumers that this renewal MUST be returned, unlike those sent during the Public Health Emergency (MAP-3185 - 2025-01-09),
(3) Renewal form has a new section in Part 6 RESOURCES requiring authorization for HRA to verify resources using data matching - must be signeded by recipient and spouse(page 7, 12-13 of the PDF);
(4) Renewal form must be signed by both applicant and spouse (p. 15 of PDF)
(5) Financial Maintenance form - not new - only required if housing costs are more than 70% gross monthly income (p. 10 of PDF);
(6) Renewal instructions (pp. 15-17 of PDF)
(7) Bar coded return envelope - LAST PAGE of PDF. If you don't have this, mail it to the address on this copy CERTIFIED.

This alert reiterates the previous Alert dated April 18, 2024 and one earlier in 2022. When requesting a Disability Determination, submit only MAP-3177 Disability Determination request. HRA will forward this to the NYS Disability REview Unit, which will then request the rest of the documents listed in this article - http://health.wnylc.com/health/entry/134/.

PowerPoint highlighting changes in the renewal process beginning in April 2025. Tenewals were reinstated about a year ago, following several years during the Public Health Emergency where Medicaid was automatically extended without requiring a renewal. Until now, because of special rules, NYC HRA could not terminate Medicaid if the renewal was not returned. THIS IS CHANGING -- this PowerPoint covers best practices for completing and returning a renewal to prevent DISCONTINUANCE of MEDICAID.

Income and Resource levels for Medicaid and other public health programs in NYS for 2001 - 2024. Includes Medicare Savings Programs, Family Health Plus, Child Health Plus, Spousal Impoverishment levels, MBI-WPD, etc.

This is basic information about Medicaid eligibility for the Disabled, Aged 65+, and Blind (DAB) category and about applying for Community Medicaid in order to receive home care (personal care or consumer-directed personal assistance) through Managed Long Term Care or based on Immediate Need through the local Medicaid program. (updated March 5, 2025 with final 2025 Income and Asset limits released by DOH)

Excel template to calculate Medicaid non-MAGI eligibility under the increased 2025 levels - see http://health.wnylc.com/health/news/90/. Can be used as a tool to estimate spend-down and pooled trust contributions. Template has different tabs for different types of budgeting schemes. -- See list of these at http://health.wnylc.com/health/entry/222/.

NYC HRA MAPDR-01 (updated 02-14-2025) -- Although this was issued in Feb. 2025, almost all the figures are in yellow which means that they are still the 2024 figures. The 2025 figures can only be calculated after NYS Dept. of Health issues the 2025 Federal Poverty Levels (FPL) later in February or March (even though the FPLs were announced by the federal govt).