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Medicaid Matters issues annual budget checklist
Every year, as the state budget process reaches the stage of negotiating a final budget, Medicaid Matters issues its Consumer Checklist as a way to remind the Governor and the Legislature of the issues of importance to people served by Medicaid in this year’s budget....
This year’s budget must enact the I/DD Ombuds Program
Medicaid Matters and advocacy partners are circulating a new memo to urge the Governor and Legislature to provide independent, individual advocacy assistance services for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) in this year's final budget. People...
Budget testimony delivered to Legislature
As part of New York's annual budget process, Medicaid Matters submitted testimony to the Joint Legislative Budget hearings on Health/Medicaid and Mental Hygiene. Medicaid Matters Coordinator, Lara Kassel, delivered testimony in person at the Health/Medicaid hearing on...
Rivera, Gonzalez-Rojas join advocates to ramp up support for #Coverage4All
The Coverage4All campaign, Health Care for All New York and Medicaid Matters New York hosted a webinar to raise more awareness about the need for advocacy to push for an affordable public health insurance coverage option for income-eligible immigrants, regardless of...
New York needs #Coverage4All!
Medicaid Matters has joined the #Coverage4All campaign and Health Care for All New York to call on state policymakers to include an affordable public coverage option for all New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status, in this year's budget. Find our joint flier...
Consumer advocates, community members, NYC public hospitals, unions unite for equitable distribution of safety-net hospital funding
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...