Edolphus Towns: “The Better Health Plan serves over 40,000 Medicaid recipients in the New York area. This plan provides services all over…”

“The Better Health Plan serves over 40,000 Medicaid recipients in the New York area. This plan provides services all over the five boroughs of New York City, including my district, which has close to 2,000 beneficiaries. Better Health Plan offers many innovative health care programs for its Medicaid members and helps them become better consumers of health care, which is very, very important. The plan also offers a wide variety of preventive services, including vision, hearing, lead screening tests and also provides counseling services for alcohol and tobacco and drug habits as well. The legislation waives the Medicaid 75-25 rule and will continue to make this plan available to New York residents.”