Health Insurance Project: Publications
New York's Exchange Portal: A Gateway to Coverage for Immigrants
This report produced by the Empire Justice Center, with grant support from the United Hospital Fund, explores the policies that guide immigrant access to health care.
Moving Toward Accountable Care in New York
In moving away from fee-for-service payment arrangements, New York’s health system is experimenting with accountable care. This report explains how accountable care organizations (ACOs) work, the kinds of groups that can enter into accountable care contracts, the challenges they face, and the ways in which they will be able to succeed. It also includes detailed profiles of 12 different Medicare ACOs in New York, showing the wide range of approaches around the state.
Blueprint, Spring 2013
The Spring 2013 issue of Blueprint spotlights the Fund's quality improvement partnerships; offers commentary by Jim Tallon; celebrates hospital auxilians and volunteers; and highlights the latest Fund news.
Explain. Improve. Connect.
Explain, improve, connect: three imperatives for our time that also describe both the goals and substance of the Fund's work.
The Big Picture IV: New York's Private and Public Insurance Markets, 2010, and the Affordable Care Act
This fourth installment in the annual Big Picture series provides a detailed snapshot of 2010's enrollment and financial trends in New York's public and private insurance markets, examines the impact of the Affordable Care Act on those markets, and reviews some of the important policy questions and regulatory challenges ahead.
New York’s Medicare Marketplace
This report, prepared by the Medicare Rights Center, examines the impact of the Affordable Care Act and other policy changes on Medicare Advantage plans.
Blueprint, Spring/Summer 2012
The Spring/Summer 2012 Blueprint looks at how the Fund is advancing health care innovation, offers commentary by Jim Tallon, and features news on the latest Fund projects and events.
Defining Essential Health Benefits: Federal Guidance and New York Options
Fifth in a series of reports on the Accountable Care Act, this report explores options for New York policymakers in determining what essential health benefits will be required for all individual and small group policies beginning in 2014.
Blueprint, Winter 2012
The Winter 2012 issue of Blueprint features a first look at the Fund's new Preventable Hospital Readmissions Initiative, commentary by Jim Tallon, and more.
Passive/Active: Defining the Role for a Health Benefit Exchange in the Interests of New Yorkers
A new Fund report 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. Fourth in a series of reports on the health benefit exchange.
New Directions
New directions. Innovation. Fundamental change. Those imperatives are an essential part of the Fund's work, as highlighted in the 2011 annual report.
Presentation from "The Affordable Care Act and New York's Insurance Markets: Defining the Role for a Health Benefit Exchange"
Key Cuomo administration officials provide an update on Affordable Care Act implementation activities at a United Hospital Fund roundtable held on December 6, 2011.
Two into One: Merging Markets and Exchanges under the Affordable Care Act
This Fund report focuses on two discretionary decisions New York faces under the Affordable Care Act: first, merging the health benefit exchanges for individuals and small businesses, and second, merging the individual and Small Group markets. Through analysis of different scenarios, the report presents estimates of the premium change that would result from setting rates for these populations based on the combined experience of individuals and groups.
Health Insurance Coverage in New York, 2009
This edition of the annual chartbook quantifies differences in insurance coverage and uninsurance around New York State and within New York City. Data are broken down into 14 separate regions across the state, including the five boroughs of New York City. Within the city itself, estimates are provided for 55 separate neighborhoods.
Implementing Health Care Reform: External Review of Health Plan Decisions
This issue brief recommends changes for New York's highly regarded External Review program, which allows consumers to appeal health plan benefit denials before impartial medical panels.
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