Medicaid Institute™: Publications
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.
Measuring Quality for Complex Medicaid Beneficiaries in New York
This new Medicaid Institute report points to the importance of quality measurement for Medicaid beneficiaries with complex needs — specifically those with multiple chronic conditions, behavioral health conditions, and long-term care needs — as a means of improving care but also as a tool to advance the state’s strategies of reimbursement reform and service delivery redesign for vulnerable and high-cost populations.
Emergency Department Use in Brooklyn by Neighborhood
This United Hospital Fund presentation to members of New York State's Medicaid Redesign Team on September 21, 2011, examines emergency department use in 11 distinct Brooklyn communities.
Medicaid Prescription Drugs: Purchasing and Management
This report explores the technical and policy decisions states can make when purchasing and managing prescription drugs in today’s Medicaid environment. It identifies best practices from around the nation and examines New York’s Medicaid prescription drug program in particular. The report also lays out how federal health reform affects the Medicaid drug benefit.
New York's Medicaid Expansion of 2000-2010
This presentation by Michael Birnbaum was delivered at the Medicaid Congress in Washington, DC, on June 14, 2011.
Medicaid in New York: The Road Ahead
This presentation by Michael Birnbaum discusses current enrollment and spending associated with New York's Medicaid program and lays out the challenges ahead.
Providing Care to Medicaid Beneficiaries with Behavioral Health Conditions: Challenges for New York
This report examines policy considerations faced by New York on how to care for Medicaid beneficiaries with mental health and substance abuse conditions.
"Revisioning" Medicaid as Part of New York's Coverage Continuum
Federal health care reform and new state Medicaid administration legislation can help New York achieve a radically streamlined, consumer-friendly eligibility and enrollment process for Medicaid and subsidized coverage options in the Exchange. This report details the challenges of achieving that goal.
Medicaid Long-Term Care in New York: Variation by Region and County
Medicaid Long-Term Care in New York: Variation by Region and County analyzes rates of service use and levels of spending per recipient across New York State, documenting variation by region and by county. It also examines four interrelated factors—demographics, reimbursement policies, availability of service, and local administration—to begin to explain regional variation.
Medicaid Personal Care in New York City: Service Use and Spending Patterns
Medicaid Personal Care in New York City: Service Use and Spending Patterns examines elderly dual Medicare-Medicaid beneficiaries in New York City, and a particular type of Medicaid long-term care service they receive—personal care, which includes assistance with eating, bathing, and dressing, as well as activities associated with independent living such as shopping and meal preparation. The report takes two distinct looks at one group of personal care recipients, elderly dual Medicare-Medicaid beneficiaries in New York City.
Medicaid in New York: Current Roles, Recent Experience, and Implications of Federal Reform
This Medicaid Institute publication lays out the challenges and opportunities facing New York’s Medicaid program, against a backdrop of a historic federal health care reform law and an unprecedented state budget deficit.
Blueprint, Fall/Winter 2010
This issue of Blueprint features a cover story on making health care reform work in an environment of fiscal constraints, a commentary by Jim Tallon framing the Affordable Care Act, and a host of articles on Fund initiatives, grants, and events.
Medicaid Transportation in New York: Background and Options
This paper, written by staff from the Lewin Group for the Fund's Medicaid Institute, describes New York's program for providing transportation services to Medicaid beneficiaries, considers the strengths and weaknesses of the state's program, and assesses alternative approaches to improve the program and reduce costs.
A Multipayer Approach to Health Care Reform
This Fund report assesses the opportunities and challenges for multipayer collaborations to be critical agents of reform in health care delivery.
Rethink/Renew/Reshape/Reform
In this time of unprecedented urgency and opportunity, the Fund's 2010 annual report focuses on the clear links between our unique approach to shaping improved health care, our accomplishments of the past year, and the challenging road immediately ahead.
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