Blog: Government

More than 30 healthcare, health plan, nonprofit, and other organizations across New York have already implemented social care coordination platforms with findhelp and are ready to hit the ground running when the Medicaid 1115 waiver is approved later this year. Read on to learn about proven strategies from some of our current New York customers…

Section 1115 of the Social Security Act gives states flexibility to design and improve their Medicaid programs by providing waivers authorizing experimental, pilot, or demonstration projects. 1115 waivers are initially approved for five years and can be extended for to three to five more years.  Many states focus their projects on addressing Medicaid enrollees’ unmet…

We are very proud to announce that we have won a contract with the State of South Dakota’s Department of Health to build a statewide social care referral system, known as a Community Information Exchange (CIE), that will connect South Dakotans in need of social care services with the providers who can help them, with…

We are excited to announce that we have won a contract with the State of Tennessee’s Medicaid Agency (TennCare) to help Tennesseans find the non-medical social care assistance they need, as part of the Health Starts Initiative!  TennCare is the state of Tennessee’s managed care Medicaid agency, and currently serves more than 1.7 million people,…

Wednesday’s national conference on hunger, nutrition and health is the Biden administration’s first step towards meeting its ambitious goal of ending food insecurity and diet-related diseases by 2030. It is the first such conference convened by the White House since 1969, and the inceptive summit led to the implementation of the food assistance programs that...

At findhelp, we are proud of the work we do every day to connect people to the care they need, with dignity and ease. As the largest social care network with over 15 million users being connected to more than 566,000 programs nationwide, we know we provide an important service to communities – including in...

Kendra Phillips grew up in West Memphis, Arkansas, and after attending college out of state, she quickly returned to the hometown she loves. West Memphis, whose motto is “beautiful from every direction,” is located in Crittenden County, bordered to the east by the Mississippi River. The county is home to 47,500 people, many of whom...