NY Medical Debt and Hospital Financial Assistance Know Your Rights
Posted July 31, 2025 by Will Pan
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2026 HCFANY’s Comments on Rate Review
Posted June 25, 2025 by Will Pan
Coverage4All Myths
Posted May 25, 2023 by Amanda Dunker
In 2022, the FY 2023 budget deal resulted in a promise made by Governor Hochul’s Administration to seek federal funding through a 1332 Waiver to expand our Essential Plan program to all New York State residents, including immigrants who are undocumented. In a turnaround, the State’s final FY 2024 proposed budget excludes immigrants from the […]
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Discharged Into Debt: New York’s Nonprofit Hospitals Garnish Patients’ Wages
Posted May 9, 2023 by Amanda Dunker
This final report in the Discharged Into Debt series investigates the practice of nonprofit hospitals garnishing patients’ wages after suing them for medical debt. A random sample of 1,611 wage garnishment cases from 5 New York hospitals indicates that the indebted patients work in low-wage occupations such as health care and social services, manufacturing, and retail. A […]
CSS Brief Highlights Need for Fairer Financial Assistance in New York Hospitals
Posted May 9, 2023 by Amanda Dunker
Bill pending in Albany would reform the state’s Hospital Financial Assistance Law to make the process of applying for financial aid simpler and more accessible for low-income patients The New York State Hospital Financial Assistance Law (HFAL) needs urgent reform. A new Community Service Society of New York (CSS) issue brief, “An Ounce of Prevention: Reforming […]
Annual Winter Meeting 2023 – Slides
Posted March 3, 2023 by Amanda Dunker
HCFANY’s Annual Winter Meeting, March 2, 2023 Slides from meeting HCFANY Steering Committee Presentation on Policy Agenda (slides) Keynote Speaker Presentation – Johanne Morne, Deputy Commission for Health Equity and Human Rights, New York State Dept. of Health (slides) Presentation on New York Public Health Emergency and Continuous Coverage Unwind Plan – Sonia Sekhar, Deputy […]
Webinar Recording: Coverage4All and the Section 1332 Waiver
Posted February 23, 2023 by Amanda Dunker
Governor Hochul is backtracking on her promise to provide health insurance for undocumented New Yorkers through a Section 1332 State Innovation Waiver. Join the #Coverage4All, Health Care for All NY campaigns and Medicaid Matters to learn about how a revised Section 1332 Waiver could help New York to provide health coverage to income-eligible New Yorkers regardless of immigration […]