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NHS Confederation: Learning from New York’s Medicaid programme
Keeping quality high and costs low is a common yet challenging goal across healthcare organisations. For the Medicaid programme in New York, which provides funding for medical and health-related services for people with low income, it was all the more challenging - the state’s spending for its population was the highest in the US, at $50bn a year and rising.
Under Jason Helgerson’s direction, innovative thinking and partnership working led to a remodelling of care delivery that has achieved a steady fall in spending per patient and a decline in spending overall.
Download the first in a new series of podcasts sharing international learning, to hear Jason Helgerson, Medicaid director and keynote speaker at this year's NHS Confederation annual conference and exhibition, talk about the challenges and successes of the Medicaid programme.
