HCFANY Annual Winter Meeting

joinusGuest Blog by Mark Hannay, Director, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign

Health Care is Under Attack in Congress! It’s “all hands on deck” BIG time!

Join HCFANY at our upcoming annual meeting next Monday, January 23 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at 1199 SEIU, 155 Washington Street, in Albany. Please register here.

Highlights will include:

  • Special keynote speaker: Dr. David Sandman, President and CEO, NYS Health Foundation
  • Presentation of HCFANY’s Annual “Consumer Health Care Champion” Award to Assmblymember Crystal Peoples-Stokes. AM Peoples-Stokes has been a key leader for health care justice, serving on both the Health and Insurance Committees, and within the leadership of the legislature’s Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Caucus.

Important topics to be discussed:

  • The immediate fights over the future of the ACA and reproductive health care
  • The coming fights over Medicare, Medicaid, and Child Health Plus
  • Governor Cuomo’s proposed 2017-18 budget
  • HCFANY’s 2017 policy agenda for New York
  • New York’s continued push toward health system transformation:  DSRIP, SHIP, PHIP, and value-based payment

 

Register NOW! 

 

Any questions?  Contact Taylor Frazier at tfrazier@cssny.org ot 212.614.5541

More info at www.hcfany.org

 

BE THERE!

 

The Affordable Care Act made a lot of changes – and improvements – to health insurance. But it was also meant to encourage changes in how health care is delivered – the care you get at the hospital, doctor’s office, pharmacy, and other places where people get health care.

Many people have frustrating experiences with health care that go beyond how it’s paid for. Maybe you can’t make an appointment without skipping work, or can’t get your prescription filled on time because of communication problems and end up skipping doses. Maybe you had to get a test done twice because re-doing it was easier than transferring your records to a new physician. Delivery system reform is meant to make the experience of getting health care better – in an ideal world, there would be seamless delivery system that lets doctors and patients focus on their health, not logistics.

HCFANY has produced a new issue brief to help consumers understand what is happening. Delivery system reform could be a great thing for everyone, but changing systems is always hard. A lot of stakeholders have learned to succeed under the status quo, and are afraid of changing how they do business. Consumers need to educate themselves about how delivery reform can benefit them and use their knowledge to encourage reform that benefits patients.

MMNY Logo
Guest Blog by Lara Kassel, Coordinator, Medicaid Matters New York
Medicaid Matters New York (MMNY) is a statewide coalition that advocates for the interests of Medicaid beneficiaries. As part of this work, MMNY is conducting a survey to assess the degree to which community-based organizations (CBOs) are engaged in DSRIP. DSRIP is an ambitious effort to change how care is delivered to the over six million New Yorkers whose care is paid for by the Medicaid program. It is important that such an effort include the safety net providers and CBOs who have roots in low-income, underserved communities that have a history of providing services to Medicaid beneficiaries.
Community-based entities of any type, in any part of New York State, are encouraged to complete the survey. The survey results will be used to help MMNY assess what the needs are around the state for advancing community interests in local DSRIP regions. It will also allow MMNY to conduct state level advocacy to ensure that the DSRIP process engages CBOs in ways that recognize their strengths and addresses barriers to their participation.
A link to the survey can be found here (scroll down), along with more background information about DSRIP. More information about DSRIP is available here, and you can find out which DSRIP entity is active in your region using this map.