Annual NY early intervention post

Early intervention providers in New York State should be aware that when Governor Cuomo does not get what he wants he just tries to cram it down everyone ' s throat via legislation - repeatedly.Blogging about the annual attacks on the early intervention programgot boring around 3 years ago.  At that point in time the State Fiscal Agent (SFA) that is costing the taxpayers of NY millions of dollars in contract fees was only collecting 15% of monies billed for services.  In 2016 nearly 85% of claims submitted by the SFA to private insurers were denied.Now in 2017,82% of claims submitted by the SFA to private insurers are being denied.  That is just pathetic.  They have no idea what they are doing.  It is boring to repeat the same thing every year, but if anyone ran their practice with the inefficiency of the SFA they would not have a practice.What is more pathetic is that we have been identifying how pathetic the SFA is for years - but no one listens to the provider community.Last year Cuomo made some recommendations that were not all implemented,so we are back at it this year and they are being included again in the executive budget.  Rather than admit that his SFA is a total and complete waste he just proposes layering upon more bureaucratic requirements that will slow down payments to providers even more, hastening the flight of the remaining agencies that remain in this very broken system.This year Governor Cuomo wants providers to engage in at ...
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