Amida Care
TypeNon-profit
IndustryHealth insurance
Founded2003
HeadquartersNew York
Key people
Doug Wirth (President & CEO)

Amida Care is a New York State health care plan.

Overview

Amida Care is a New York Medicaid managed care health plan for those with HIV/AIDS and other chronic conditions such as addiction, mental health issues, and homelessness.[1] The non-profit[2] was founded in 2003.[3][4] One of its focuses is on members of the LGBTQ community[5] including transgender people.[6][7] The organization operates in New York,[8] and it is the largest Medicaid Special Needs Health Plan in the state.[9][10] The president and CEO of the organization is Doug Wirth.[11] In 2018 the company had about $400 million in revenues.[12]

Programs

The Live Life Plus health plan includes HIV prevention and risk reduction education, treatment adherence services, and multidisciplinary behavioral health services.[3] Amida Care also provides care for individuals diagnosed with Hepatitis C.[13] Amida Care works with local partners to provide care, both medical and non-medical, such as housing consultation.[7] Amida Care works to identify and reach out to individuals who have stopped taking their HIV medication in order to aid in treatment.[14] In 2017 Amida Care expanded the Live Life Plus health plan to enroll HIV-negative in addition to HIV-positive transgender individuals, due to the historical difficulty of transgender people in accessing healthcare.[15] Amida Care also enrolls homeless individuals who are HIV-negative or HIV-positive.[16]

References

  1. ↑ "Inside UW-Green Bay News".
  2. ↑ Tim Murphy (December 3, 2018). "Living the Dream: Health care advocate and aspiring actor Jackie Johnson finds himself in the spotlight after being cured of hepatitis C." Hep Magazine.
  3. 1 2 Cecilia Hardacker; Kelly Ducheny; Magda Houlberg (2018). Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Health and Aging. Springer. p. 71. ISBN 9783319950310.
  4. ↑ Deborah Sontag (December 12, 2015). "'A Whole New Being': How Kricket Nimmons Seized the Transgender Moment". New York Times.
  5. ↑ "Profiles of Pride: 10 people making a difference for LGBT New Yorkers". City and State.
  6. ↑ JAY MWAMBA (December 8, 2016). "AFRICAN-AMERICAN and LATINO AIDS AWARENESS: Transgender women vs. HIV odds in New York City". New York Daily News.
  7. 1 2 Kriti M. Jain; David R. Holtgrave; Cathy Maulsby; J. Janet Kim; Rose Zulliger; Meredith Massey; Vignetta Charles (2016). Improving Access to HIV Care: Lessons from Five U.S. Sites Copertina anteriore. JHU Press. pp. 62–69. ISBN 9781421418865.
  8. ↑ Thomas Beaton (October 2, 2018). "How Managed Care Payers Can Improve Substance Use Treatment". HealthPayer.
  9. ↑ Doug Wirth (December 11, 2017). "Trump's Tax Reform Will Make America Poorer and Sicker". Newsweek.
  10. ↑ Stephane Howze (March 10, 2017). "OpEd: Black Women Bear An Undue Burden of The HIV Epidemic". NBC News.
  11. ↑ Caroline Lewis (December 2016). "President and CEO of Amida Care on the social obstacles facing HIV patients". Crain's New York.
  12. ↑ "Amida Care Inc". Hoover's.
  13. ↑ Joseph Darius Jaafari (April 4, 2018). "There Is a Cure for Hepatitis C, If Only Patients Could Access It".
  14. ↑ "'Ending AIDS' in New York means finding the most vulnerable". PBS. July 13, 2016.
  15. ↑ Arjee Javellana Restar (March 18, 2018). "Amida Care's Health Plan for Transgender New Yorkers Offers a National Model". The Body.
  16. ↑ Michael Martin (June 26, 2019). "Health plan focuses on low-income trans New Yorkers, HIV care". Metro.
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