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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Comments on Oscar’s Rate Request for 2020
Posted July 1, 2019 by Amanda Dunker
HCFANY’s comments first describe market-wide issues identified through reviewing all of the 2020 individual market rate applications and then discuss issues with the specific carrier’s application.
Comments on MVP’s 2020 Rate Request
Posted July 1, 2019 by Amanda Dunker
HCFANY’s comments first describe market-wide issues identified through reviewing all of the 2020 individual market rate applications and then discuss issues with the specific carrier’s application.
Press Release: NEW YORK CONSUMERS WILL GET A SAY IN HEALTH INSURANCE RATES
Posted June 8, 2017 by Amanda Dunker
Albany, NY – Health Care for All New York (HCFANY), a statewide coalition of over 170 consumer advocacy organizations, encourages consumers and consumer advocates to weigh in on health insurance rate proposals for 2018. Yesterday evening, the Department of Financial Services (DFS) posted a summary of the companies’ rate proposals that indicated that the requested rate […]
Consumer Rate Comment Templates
Posted June 8, 2017 by Amanda Dunker
Health insurance companies in New York State must ask for permission from the Department of Financial Services (DFS) to change their rates. DFS considers public comments when conducting their review. There are two templates below, one for responding to a proposed increase and one for responding to a proposed decrease. Once you download the template and add […]