Expanding Health Insurance Coverage: Grants
The New York Immigration Coalition
To reinforce, through training, education, and outreach, immigrants’ rights to health care and health coverage after a health reform debate that has resulted in widespread confusion among immigrant communities.
Reducing Maternal Obesity Complications
To reduce obesity-related complications in pregnancy and birth through collaboration on the design and testing/validation of a multidisciplinary "care bundle" for obese pregnant women.
Medicare Rights Center
To advance policies and practices to enroll more eligible New Yorkers in Medicare through existing Medicare Savings Programs.
Medicaid Application Redesign
To help ensure that all eligible New Yorkers have optimal access to health insurance coverage by developing recommendations for the Medicaid Application Redesign Project to re-engineer the application form and process for enrolling in New York's public health insurance programs.
Health Research, Inc.
To provide statewide Medicaid claims and encounter data and technical assistance for United Hospital Fund research on strengthening the Medicaid program.
Medicaid Matters New York
To support a statewide Medicaid consumer advocacy coalition seeking to improve access to services.
Community Health Care Association of New York State
To implement the New York State Department of Health Presumptive Eligibility protocol at New York City community health centers, designed to expedite and facilitate the enrollment of uninsured children into the Medicaid program.
Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, Center for Children and Families
To develop a core set of federal policy options that could enable New York and other states to undertake new strategies for enrolling and retaining children and families into Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Medicaid Client Notices Project
To partner with the New York State Department of Health Office of Health Insurance Programs--and a working group of legal services organizations, advocacy groups, and local government--to evaluate and revise a subset of high-priority Medicaid client notices.
National Center for Law and Economic Justice
To develop effective strategies for enrolling eligible single adults and childless couples into public insurance programs, by exploring barriers to enrollment.
The New York Immigration Coalition
To identify strategies to optimize immigrants’ enrollment in current and future public health insurance programs.
Health Care Research, Inc.
To work with the United Hospital Fund by providing paid claims and related encounter data and technical assistance. As more Medicaid beneficiaries move into managed care, it becomes more critical that the Fund has complete and accurate encounter data for its analyses. These data constitute the foundation of the Fund's research into New York State's Medicaid program, which focuses on patterns of eligibility, service use, and cost.
Children's Defense Fund-New York
To analyze application criteria and procedures for several public benefit programs and make concrete recommendations for aligning them with public health insurance in order to increase enrollment.
Coalition for Medically Fragile Children
To document and assess the extent to which medically fragile young adults encounter access and coverage gaps as they “age out” of health services and supportive programs designed for children, and to recommend responsive program and policy changes.
Community Service Society of New York
To better understand what lower-income persons who are not eligible for public programs can afford for health insurance coverage (i.e., premiums, deductibles, and co-pays).
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