Posted March, 22 2011 by arianne
In the second day in our week-long anniversary celebration of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we now turn our attention to seniors. The ACA has taken great strides to keep our seniors healthy and to bring them greater peace of mind when it comes to filling their prescriptions. Thanks to the ACA, New York’s over 2.8 million Medicare […]
Posted March, 21 2011 by arianne
Today marks the first day of the week-long celebration taking place around the nation to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). To help get things rolling, HCFANY will be spotlighting a different aspect of the ACA each day this week, and how it is helping New Yorkers. Today’s topic, if you didn’t guess it […]
Posted March, 16 2011 by arianne
Yes, today is conference committee day up at the Capitol. The Senate and Assembly both passed their one-house resolutions yesterday, which included several cuts to the proposed Medicaid redesign package. The budget is still scheduled to pass on April 1st and Governor Cuomo has said that if does not go according to schedule then he will resort […]
Posted March, 10 2011 by arianne
With the Governor’s addition of his 30-day amendements to the proposed Executive Budget last week, the Medicaid Redesign Team’s recommendations have now been converted into actual legislative proposals. These proposals contain $2.3 billion in cuts to the State’s share of Medicaid spending. This will translate into sweeping changes to New York’s Medicaid program – a program that serves as […]