Medicaid Institute: News
United Hospital Fund Report Lays Out Approaches to Simplify Enrollment and Retention in New York's Public Insurance Programs
This Medicaid Institute™ report explores how New York could use data-matching strategies to simplify enrollment and retention in its public health insurance programs.
United Hospital Fund Report Presents an Unprecedented Portrait of New York's Insurance Markets
This report provides the first comprehensive analysis of New York’s commercial and self-funded health insurance markets, and public managed care markets for children and for Medicaid and Medicare recipients. Because there is wide disparity across the nation in how insurance works, an understanding of insurance in New York is especially critical as federal health reform may support or complicate the state’s efforts to date.
United Hospital Fund Report Offers Recommendations and Options to Better Manage Care for Patients with Severe Mental Illness and Chronic Physical Health Conditions
A report from the United Hospital Fund’s Medicaid Institute™: concludes that, for Medicaid beneficiaries with chronic physical health conditions and serious and persistent mental illness, the more integration of physical and behavioral health care services the better.
United Hospital Fund Publishes First-of-Its-Kind Report with Comprehensive Data on Medicaid Long-Term Care Programs in New York
A new Medicaid Institute™ report aims to inform current policy discussions about how to address challenges associated with New York's Medicaid long-term care programs.
United Hospital Fund Report Rethinks Service Delivery for Some of the Highest-Cost Medicaid Patients
This report lays out the challenges to improving care for certain high-cost Medicaid beneficiaries, focusing on those with multiple and substantial needs who rely disproportionately on hospital inpatient services.
Two United Hospital Fund Reports Address Interruptions in Medicaid Coverage
These two reports look at enrollment and renewal challenges and opportunities for children and for all long-term beneficiaries.
United Hospital Fund Report Offers Insights into a High-Cost Population of Medicaid Beneficiaries
Challenges face New York's Medicaid program as it considers options to improve care and rein in costs for some high-cost elderly individuals who are dually enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid.
United Hospital Fund Releases Report That Finds Streamlining Public Insurance Renewal Holds Promise for New York
Examining lessons from eight other states regarding options to streamline the annual renewal process for beneficiaries of public health insurance, the report's findings strongly suggest that a combination of these options may work well for New York.
Two United Hospital Fund Reports Offer New Data on Service Use and Spending for Medicaid Beneficiaries in New York
These Medicaid Institute™ reports update two widely disseminated Fund publications, each addressing important patterns and trends.
United Hospital Fund Report Documents a Decade of Change in New York's Nursing Homes
This report documents a ten-year trend among New York's nursing homes, marking their growing role as providers of short-term care for people continuing recuperation after a hospital stay.
The Health Care Reform Imperative
The budget process forces a focus on fundamental issues, and offers a chance for decisions critical to real health care reform, says Fund President Jim Tallon, in his latest Blueprint editorial.
