With NYS budget bills finally in print we’re happy to announce that a permanent carve-out provision is included in the Health Budget, finally completing a long and challenging advocacy campaign to allow school-based health centers to remain carved out of Medicaid managed care. See budget language below and congrats to all who have supported this advocacy work since its announcements in the early 2010s:
PART Z
25 Section 1. Paragraph (d-3) of subdivision 3 of section 364-j of the
26 social services law, as amended by section 1 of part HH of chapter 57 of
27 the laws of 2025, is amended to read as follows:
28 (d-3) Services provided in school-based health centers shall not be
29 provided to medical assistance recipients through managed care programs
30 established pursuant to this section [until at least April first, two
31 thousand twenty-six].
32 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
33 the amendments to section 364-j of the social services law made by
34 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
35 shall be deemed repealed therewith.
