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Fidelis has partnered with Galileo to provide wraparound services for its network of providers. Galileo is a digital medical practice that delivers high quality, multidisciplinary care. In a single app, patients can receive 24/7 care by text, phone, or video.
Galileo is focused on wrapping around a population of Medicaid lives with chronic and complex BH needs in the Finger Lakes & Central Regions.
Galileo can support identified Fidelis members through:
After Hours and Acute Care: Galileo providers are available 24/7, all year round, to care for patients, minimizing ED and Urgent Care utilization. After a patient has been seen by the
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Annual cultural competency training for participating providers is required by the New York State Department of Health. At this time, The New York State DOH will only accept the approved training offered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Minority Health education program, Think Cultural Health, to fulfill the requirement for provider annual cultural competency training.*
Once the cultural competency training has been completed, providers need to verify completion of the program by emailing the Cultural Competency Attestation Form to:
CulturalCompetencyTrainingAttestation@fideliscare.org.
The required Cultural Competency Training needs to be completed annually by December 31st. Providers that completed
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In an effort to streamline provider demographic changes and provider termination requests, Fidelis Care has created two new electronic forms for providers to use. Please use these forms to submit changes under a singular TIN. In order to expedite the request, all fields on the forms are required. If not complete, the request will be delayed.
Forms available on fideliscare.org:
Provider Demographic Change Request Form
Provider Termination Request Form
Once completed, the forms can be submitted electronically to SMProviderAttestationUpdates@fideliscare.org. In the subject line of the email, please enter Demographic Change/Termination Request for "Your Provider/Group Name" in "Your County" (i.e. Demographic Change Request
2025/1/8
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As you know, Fidelis Care relies upon the receipt of membership information from the New York State Department of Health (SDOH) prior to issuing capitation payments. The date for receiving this information from the SDOH varies from month to month. In certain months, the availability of data may be delayed as much as one week. Nevertheless, Fidelis Care has historically made capitation payments as close to the first of each calendar month as possible.
Presented below is Fidelis Care’s 2025 capitation check and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) schedule. Please refer to this to determine the timing of your monthly payment. Over
2025/1/6
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As part of New York’s Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) initiative, the NY 1115 Waiver introduced the Social Care Networks (SCN) Program, a transformative model focused on integrating social care into healthcare delivery. There is growing recognition that fully achieving health for all requires a focus not only on physical and behavioral health, but also on Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN). The SCN program encourages partnerships across health and social services to address Medicaid members' diverse needs, such as food insecurity, housing instability, and lack of transportation. Many of these HRSN services may become reimbursable to a member under the provision of
2025/1/6
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Fidelis Care would like to inform providers of a change to our Behavioral Health discharge planning support process effective February 1, 2025.
Beginning February 1, the Fidelis Behavioral Health Utilization Manager will be the primary contact for collaboration for your inpatient members and will coordinate care with case managers to assist as needed. The Behavioral Health UM team can provide the name and extension of the Behavioral Health Transitions Care Manager or the assigned HARP Care Manager (if applicable) for additional support. Feel free to communicate with the care management team for questions or help with discharge planning at 1-888-343-3547 ext.
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