Fidelis Care, a well being plan serving greater than 2.5 million individuals throughout New York State and a subsidiary of Centene Corp., is partnering with Cityblock, a value-based healthcare supplier, to offer community-based care to 1000’s of eligible individuals within the New York Town house and Lengthy Island residing with advanced clinical and behavioral well being prerequisites.

Cityblock’s care style connects individuals to a multidisciplinary care staff that incorporates number one care suppliers, behavioral well being experts, network well being companions, nurse care managers, pharmacy navigators, and extra.

 Via this partnership, eligible individuals of Fidelis Care’s Medicaid Controlled Care and HealthierLife – Well being and Restoration Plan (HARP) plans now have get right of entry to to Cityblock’s built-in number one care, behavioral well being, and social care products and services. Participants have the selection to peer their care staff just about, of their houses, or at native Cityblock clinics.

Cityblock supplies products and services to Fidelis Care individuals with advanced wishes, lots of whom are at disproportionately upper chance for deficient well being results. By means of providing 24/7 get right of entry to and care, Cityblock’s multidisciplinary care staff works to cut back needless emergency division visits and inpatient admissions, whilst bettering high quality and member participation of their healthcare.

“We firmly imagine that it isn’t simplest conceivable, however essential, to force higher well being results for marginalized and underserved populations,” stated Kameron Matthews, M.D., J.D., leader well being officer of Cityblock, in a commentary. “We’re commemorated to spouse with Fidelis Care, which stocks this imaginative and prescient for innovation and value-based care. Our paintings in combination is extra necessary than ever to near any gaps in care to these disproportionately impacted by means of the pandemic and financial adjustments over the previous couple of years.”

Based in 2017, Cityblock serves over 100,000 Medicaid and Medicare-Medicaid dually eligible beneficiaries in New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio and Indiana.