Welcome, Providers!

March is National Nutrition Month. Eating nutritious foods is a good way to keep healthy. With higher food prices, it can feel hard to put healthy food on the table. Here are some tips to enjoy nutritious foods without going over your budget.

Fidelis Care will be hosting an educational webinar series for our Health Home partners entitled “Wellness 360 for Health Homes: Special Populations”. Health Homes provide community-based care management for Medicaid recipients with chronic medical and behavioral health conditions.

March is Women’s History Month, a time to recall the many accomplishments women have made in our society. As I reflect upon the observance, I am drawn to my own path to becoming a doctor. My earliest memories are filled with emergency room visits and hospitalizations related to my childhood asthma and food allergies – which often led to life-threatening reactions. The scene was always the same. It was dark outside, I would be hurried into the car, and taken to a local hospital on Staten Island. I have vivid flashbacks of opening my eyes to doctors, nurses, and medical staff around me, as I lay helpless on the hospital bed.

Beginning March 2, 2024, current enrollees in Qualified Health Plans (Ambetter from Fidelis Care) who are within 200-250% FPL will be notified via letter from NY State of Health about the expansion of Essential Plan coverage in New York State. Members that now qualify for Essential Plan coverage will automatically be moved from their Qualified Health Plan to Essential Plan 200-250, effective April 1, 2024.

Colorectal cancer is a disease in which cells in the colon or rectum grow out of control. It is the one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Almost 3,000 New Yorkers die from the disease every year. The risk is higher after age 50. Screening is important and can save lives. When found early, treatment is more likely to be successful. Talk to your primary care provider (PCP) about colorectal cancer and screening tests.