Amida Care

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. 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. 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. "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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