Health Insurance Project: Grants

Medicare Rights Center

Grant Date: 02.16.2011
Amount: $65,000
To assess the policy implications of the Affordable Care Act for Medicare Advantage Plans in New York.

The Urban Institute

Grant Date: 10.21.2010
Amount: $50,000

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.

Coalition of New York State Public Health Plans/Children’s Defense Fund-New York

Grant Date: 02.17.2010
Amount: $65,000

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

Grant Date: 02.17.2010
Amount: $50,000

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

Grant Date: 06.17.2009
Amount: $110000

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

Grant Date: 10.17.2008
Amount: $75,000

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

Grant Date: 10.17.2008
Amount: $75,000

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

Grant Date: 10.17.2008
Amount: $49,000

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

Grant Date: 06.20.2008
Amount: $73,000

To identify strategies to optimize immigrants’ enrollment in current and future public health insurance programs.

Children's Defense Fund-New York

Grant Date: 03.24.2008
Amount: $50,000

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

Grant Date: 03.24.2008
Amount: $75,000

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.

Grant Date: 03.24.2008
Amount: $75,000

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.

Community Service Society of New York

Grant Date: 11.18.2007
Amount: $75,000

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).