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Health Equity Impact Assessment rules adopted

Jun 30, 2023 | Hospital Issues, News

NY health advocates applaud new health equity impact assessment lawAffected communities will be consulted when health facilities want to reduce, eliminate services Download this statement here. Statewide health advocacy coalitions applauded today’s state adoption of…

Consumer advocates, community members, NYC public hospitals, unions unite for equitable distribution of safety-net hospital funding

Jan 3, 2023 | Hospital Issues, News

Medicaid Matters has joined with other health care consumer advocacy groups, community members across the state, NYC Health + Hospitals, and labor representatives to call for equitable distribution of safety-net hospital funding. Our one-pager, including the…

Community members deserve notice, opportunity to comment when a hospital plans to close

May 9, 2022 | Hospital Issues

Medicaid Matters supports the bill by Assembly Member JoAnne Simon and Senator Brian Kavanagh that would require advance notice and opportunity for public comments when a hospital or a significant portion of a hospital’s services plans to close. Download the…

Advocates urge Governor to sign Health Equity Assessment bill

Dec 9, 2021 | Hospital Issues, News

Community Voices for Health System Accountability and its participants call on Governor Hochul to sign the Health Equity Assessment bill. The bill would require that Certificate of Need (CON) applications include an independent, community-based assessment of the…

Advocates applaud passage of Health Equity Assessment bill

Jun 2, 2021 | Hospital Issues, News

Health Equity Assessment Bill Receives Final NYS Legislative Passage Health advocacy groups across New York State today applauded state Assembly action Tuesday night giving final legislative passage to S1451a, the Health Equity Assessment Bill. The bill, which had…

Renewed push for equity in the Indigent Care Pool

May 12, 2021 | Hospital Issues, News

Several advocacy groups, along with NYC Health + Hospitals and labor unions, continue to push for redistribution of the Indigent Care Pool (ICP). Over $1 billion in Medicaid funds are allocated to hospitals across the state, and advocates believe the funding should be…

Joint statement: Guarantee the Survival of the Healthcare Safety Net

Jan 10, 2021 | Hospital Issues

Medicaid Matters joined NYC Health + Hospitals, labor unions, the Commission on the Public’s Health System, the Community Service Society of NY, and many other groups and organizations to advance the following priorities to protect safety-net hospitals: Target…

Post-budget advocacy to protect safety-net hospitals

May 10, 2020 | Hospital Issues

The 2020-2021 enacted state budget allows the Governor to make mid-year budget cuts, outside the usual legislative process. Advocates support the agenda of NYC Health + Hospitals to protect safety-net hospitals.

Hospital charity care funding

Apr 10, 2019 | Hospital Issues

For far too long, hospital indigent care pool funding – also referred to as hospital charity care funding – has been allocated in a way that does not tie the money to actual services to low-income people. As part of the 2018-19 state budget agreement, the NYS…

Materials:

Call to action and recommendations in response to the NYS Indigent Care Pool Workgroup report

(Commission on the Public’s Health System; February 2019)

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Health Policy Webinar: Making Indigent Care Pool Funding Fair

(NYC Health + Hospitals and community groups; January 2019)

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Medicaid Matters memo in support of hospital charity care legislation

(April 2019)

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Memo outlining provisions of the legislation

(NYC Health + Hospitals; January 2019)

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New York State Indigent Care Pool Workgroup report

(NYS Department of Health, February 2019)

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NYC Health + Hospitals / Community / Consumer Advocates flier in support of hospital charity care legislation

(NYC Health + Hospitals; April 2019)

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More information / reports:

Funding Charity Care in New York: An Examination of Indigent Care Pool Allocations

(Roosa Tikkanen, MPH, MRes, for the NYS Health Foundation; March 2017)

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Paying New York State Hospitals More Fairly for Their Care to Uninsured Patients

(Alan Sager, PhD, Boston University School of Public Health, for the Commission on the Public’s Health System; August 2011)

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Unintended Consequences – How New York State Patients and Safety-Net Hospitals are Short-Changed

(Community Service Society of NY; January 2018)

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Resources and news articles to explain the issues and why we must take action to protect Medicaid:

Hospital Issues

Health Equity Impact Assessment rules adopted

Consumer advocates, community members, NYC public hospitals, unions unite for equitable distribution of safety-net hospital funding

Community members deserve notice, opportunity to comment when a hospital plans to close

Advocates urge Governor to sign Health Equity Assessment bill

Advocates applaud passage of Health Equity Assessment bill

Renewed push for equity in the Indigent Care Pool

Joint statement: Guarantee the Survival of the Healthcare Safety Net

Post-budget advocacy to protect safety-net hospitals

Hospital charity care funding

Additional Resources

Materials:

More information / reports:

Resources and news articles to explain the issues and why we must take action to protect Medicaid:

2025 Budget Reconciliation and H.R.1

Impact of Federal Policy Making on New York

Resources from our National Partners

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