New York Partnership Plan

The Partnership Plan Demonstration was approved in 1997 to enroll most Medicaid beneficiaries into managed care organizations. In 2001, the Family Health Plus (FHPlus) program was implemented as an amendment to the demonstration, providing comprehensive health coverage to low-income uninsured adults, with and without children, who have income and/or assets greater than Medicaid eligibility standards. In 2002, the demonstration was further amended to provide family planning services to women losing Medicaid eligibility and certain other adults of childbearing age (family planning expansion program). Authority to mandate managed care enrollment for beneficiaries receiving SSI or otherwise aged or disabled as well as low-income families in 14 upstate counties was transferred to the Federal-State Health Reform Partnership (F-SHRP) demonstration in October 2006. The demonstration is funded by savings generated from the managed care delivery system.