The Fidelis Care Blog

Due to regulatory requirements defined in Article 44 of the New York State Public Health Law for all Managed Care Organizations (MCO), Fidelis Care is implementing changes to our Utilization Management/Authorization Appeals process. Effective June 1, 2025, Fidelis Care will require providers to adhere

Fidelis Care and nonprofit maternal health organization Mom Starts Here recently partnered to open a Baby Item Network supplies closet at the Fidelis Care Utica Community Office. It’s free to all Medicaid recipients.

The following section of the Fidelis Care authorization grids have been updated effective June 1, 2025.

Fidelis Care would like to remind providers of the updated calculation of hospitals’ initial inpatient acute, exempt hospital, and exempt unit reimbursement rates for Medicaid Fee-for-Service (FFS) and Medicaid Managed Care (MMC), which were effective October 1, 2024.

Fidelis Care opened its 2025 Veggies to Go produce giveaway season by distributing more than 150 bags of fresh fruits and vegetables at events hosted by Genesee ACE Employment in Batavia on March 15 and the Watertown YMCA on March 26. Veggies to Go addresses nutrition and food insecurity in urban and rural communities across New York State.