Health Insurance Project: Grants
Medicare Rights Center
To prepare two reports focused on the Medicare program, including one on the impact of the Affordable Care Act on Medicare Advantage Plans in New York, and the other on previously unidentified issues raised by consumers.
Empire Justice Center
To analyze the policy implications and implementation challenges created by the Affordable Care Act’s complex provisions related to citizenship status.
Medicare Rights Center
To assess the policy implications of the Affordable Care Act for Medicare Advantage Plans in New York.
The Urban Institute
To provide an updated profile of health insurance coverage in New York State and to help inform policy choices for the implementation of health reform.
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.
Coalition of New York State Public Health Plans/Children’s Defense Fund-New York
To improve New York City’s new online public health insurance renewal tool through consumer testing and literacy review.
New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage
To analyze the policy implications of federal health reform in New York for people with serious illness and disabilities.
Redesigning the Application for Public Insurance Programs
To work collaboratively to redesign the application form for community Medicaid, Child Health Plus, and Family Health Plus with the goal of promoting greater access to coverage.
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.
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.
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.
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