Partners include hospitals, primary care providers, mental health and substance abuse treatment providers, skilled nursing facilities, home and community providers, and others. The DSRIP project addresses social factors that impact health, requiring engagement and collaboration with many stakeholders, including community-based organizations, from diverse sectors. DSRIP’s purpose is to fundamentally restructure the health care delivery system by reinvesting in the Medicaid program.

The program’s primary goal is to stabilize the safety net system and reduce avoidable hospital use by 25 percent over five years and meet the needs of Medicaid beneficiaries and low-income, uninsured individuals in local communities by aligning with the Triple Aim of improving access to care, improving quality of care, and reducing costs. New York’s Performing Provider Systems (PPS) were formed to lead regional partnerships.

Our PPS spans nearly 11,000 square miles and nine counties: all of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, Warren, and Washington counties, and portions of Fulton, Saratoga and St. Lawrence counties. While a Medicaid program that impacts 143,000 attributed lives, the region’s 700,000 residents benefit from the increased support of population health.