Life for NY’s health insurers just got a little more interesting

Posted on February 15, 2012 by hcfany

It’s getting to be that time of the year again, and we all dread to hear those three little words…”You’re being audited.” [cue scary Psycho knife sound] Thankfully, it’s not consumers who have to worry this time – its our health insurers.  The Department of Financial Services (DOFS) announced today that it will soon start performing random audits [...]

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Diagnosis: Bankruptcy

Posted on February 15, 2012 by hcfany

Photo courtesy of Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune It’s interesting that as the health reform debate sputters on, more and more personal stories are coming out of the woodwork to make the case for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).   More often than not, these are stories of regular Joe’s like you and me who just happened [...]

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Happy (Health Policy) Valentine’s Day!

Posted on February 14, 2012 by hcfany

Well, it’s that time of the year again! February 14th and love is in the air – and in the social media blogosphere… Anybody who is on twitter or follows us @hcfany will probably have noticed the hashtag #healthpolicyvalentines take off at the end of last week.  This has really brought a smile to this [...]

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Patients in Need are Stunned and Dunned

Posted on February 13, 2012 by hcfany

The New York Times put hospital financial assistance, a long-time HCFANY priority for reform, on the front page today with an article called “Hospitals Flout Charity Aid Law.” The article presents findings of a new report by the Community Service Society of New York, “Incentivizing Patient Financial Assistance: How to Fix New York’s Hospital Financial [...]

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Understanding your health benefits may soon get easier

Posted on February 10, 2012 by hcfany

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) yesterday released it’s final regulations regarding the information that health insurance companies will have to give to consumers about their plans in order to allow them to compare plans and make informed choices.  Basically, it’s a simple, easy-to-understand way to explain to folks what is covered and what [...]

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How the ACA will bring fairness back to health insurance

Posted on February 9, 2012 by hcfany

A new Commonwealth Fund report released yesterday tackles the existing health insurance inequities between people with higher and lower incomes.  The report finds that, nationally, nearly 3 in 5 adults in families earning less than 133% percent of the federal poverty level (about $14,000 per year for an individual) were uninsured at some point in 2011, and 2 in 5 were uninsured for one or more [...]

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Root for New York in the Say Ahhh! Super Blog-off

Posted on February 2, 2012 by hcfany

In honor of the Super Bowl, Georgetown’s children’s health policy blog, Say Ahhh! is hosting a Super Blog-Off between Patriots fans and Giants fans. The teams are competing based on how much they are doing to help uninsured children. Click here to read the introduction for the blog-off. New York has tough competition! Health Care for All [...]

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More folks warming up to health reform

Posted on January 31, 2012 by hcfany

With the ongoing GOP presidential debates there’s been so much negativity floating around the health reform conversation.  So, it’s nice when every now and then something positive is able to break through all the rhetoric. This week, Harris Interactive/Health Day released the results of their latest poll on health reform.  Naturally, they did find that Americans are [...]

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Sebelius breaks it down on the Daily Show

Posted on January 27, 2012 by hcfany

Did anybody watch this? On Monday, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius made a guest appearance on the Daily Show to talk about the Affordable Care Act. She does a pretty good job of hashing out what’s in the law and what’s not, and Jon Stewart is, as always, just charming. In case you [...]

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Fell asleep early last night?

Posted on January 25, 2012 by hcfany

I’m sure all of you are busy celebrating your State of the Union bingo victories from last night, but anybody who missed last night’s address by President Obama can easily fill themselves in today. You can watch a video of the entire address above, or read the full text by clicking here (via Bloomberg). Noticeably absent from the president’s speech [...]

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