Health Insurance Project: News
United Hospital Fund Report Examines Whether New York's Health Benefit Exchange Should Be a Passive Clearinghouse or an Active Purchaser
A new report from the United Hospital Fund carefully examines the roles New York’s health benefit exchange should play, ranging from a passive marketplace, with the free market alone determining the quantity and scope of offerings, to an active purchaser, with the exchange using its leverage to achieve one or more systemwide goals.
Jim Tallon: New Directions
In his 2011 annual report vision statement, Fund president Jim Tallon focuses on the “innovation imperative”—and highlights recent Fund achievements that exemplify just that.
United Hospital Fund Report Examines Mergers of Individual and Small Group Insurance Markets and of Health Benefit Exchanges
This Fund report focuses on two discretionary decisions for New York involving mergers: first, combining individual and small business health benefit exchanges, and second, merging the individual and Small Group markets.
United Hospital Fund Analysis Examines State- and Citywide Differences in Insurance Coverage and Uninsurance
This edition of the Fund's annual chartbook series, for the first time, has quantified differences in insurance coverage and uninsurance around New York State and within New York City. Data are broken down into 14 separate regions across New York State, including the five boroughs of New York City; within the city itself, estimates are provided for 55 separate neighborhoods.
United Hospital Fund Report Assesses the Challenges to Integrating New York's Medicaid Program with a New Health Insurance Exchange
A new Fund report examines the organizational improvements needed to improve and integrate current Medicaid processes for eligibility and enrollment, information technology, and beneficiary communications with the health insurance exchange now being designed in New York as part of federal health care reform.
Jim Tallon: Positive Changes Taking Shape in NY Health Care
Published by Crain's New York Business on April 24, 2011, and re-posted with permission, this op-ed by Jim Tallon outlines some of the big changes on the ground that are coming to health care.
United Hospital Fund Analysis Finds That, in 2009, Health Plan Profits Bounced Back after Three Years of Declines
Total premiums paid by government, individuals, and businesses for public and private insurance coverage approached $50 billion in 2009, a 7.5 percent increase over the previous year. And commercial health plans posted gains of $921.7 million in 2009—a 25 percent increase over 2008. These are among the findings in the third installment of the Fund’s Big Picture.
United Hospital Fund Report Examines Medicaid Eligibility and Enrollment Changes
This report from the Medicaid Institute at United Hospital Fund examines Medicaid’s eligibility and enrollment processes in an environment being reshaped by New York’s implementation of federal health care reform and the transition of Medicaid administration from local governments to the state.
United Hospital Fund Report Weighs Options New York Faces in Implementing Health Insurance Exchange
This United Hospital Fund report examines New York state’s options related to the health insurance exchange that is required by federal health reform.
Jim Tallon: Truth-Telling Time
It's time to tell the truth about the Affordable Care Act—and about the consequences of inaction.
Benefit of COBRA Premium Subsidies Tallied; Program Expiration Has Important Implications
As Congress continues to debate whether to revive COBRA health insurance premium subsidies for laid-off workers, a Fund analysis of a new federal study indicates that the program brought significant benefits to New York State workers and their families.
New High-Risk Pool Requirement Poses First Reform Challenge for New York
New York State, which requires health plans to accept all New Yorkers for coverage, regardless of health status, is now facing the first major implementation challenge of the new health reform legislation—establishment of a temporary high-risk pool. A Fund roundtable examines the implications.
United Hospital Fund Analysis Finds That Most Health Plans Reported Profits, But Smaller Ones, in 2008
Most commercial health plans weathered the onset of our national recession to maintain profitability in 2008, according to this report.
United Hospital Fund Report Charts Impact of Cost Sharing on Group Premiums and Individual Out-of-Pocket Costs
This Fund report examines the impact of cost sharing—deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance—on group health insurance premiums in New York, and the resulting out-of-pocket costs for enrollees
United Hospital Fund Spells Out How the New COBRA Subsidy Extension Provides Important Relief to New Yorkers
With new legislation extending the federal COBRA premium subsidy program, the United Hospital Fund explains how and for whom this extension provides relief.
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