Private Insurance Market: Publications
The Big Picture III: Private and Public Health Insurance Markets in New York, 2009
The Big Picture is the Fund’s series of yearly reports that highlight enrollment and financial results in New York’s public and private insurance markets. According to this installment, 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. The report examines factors contributing to increased profitability and considers the state’s forthcoming challenges related to structuring a health insurance exchange.
"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.
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.
Blueprint, Spring 2010
The latest issue of Blueprint presents the Fund's new family caregiving quality improvement collaborative, commentary by Jim Tallon on post-reform imperatives, and a host of articles on Fund initiatives, grants, and events.
The Big Picture Updated
This report provides analysis of recent activity in both New York’s private markets and state and federal managed care programs.
Cost Sharing in New York's Health Insurance Market
This 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.
The Big Picture: Private and Public Health Insurance Markets in New York
An unprecedented portrait of New York's commercial, Medicaid, Medicare, and self-funded insurance markets, The Big Picture provides an in-depth review of those markets and the regulations and policies shaping health insurance in our state. Updated Nov. 5, 2009
Blueprint, Summer 2009
The latest issue of the Fund's newsletter spotlights the Fund's comprehensive new look at the state of New York's insurance market, a "culture-changing" program helping two hospitals encourage breastfeeding, updates on other Fund initiatives, and more.
Blueprint, Spring 2009
A new Fund website for family caregivers, an innovative approach to high-cost patients, an invaluable consumer guide to health care coverage after job loss, and more Fund news.
Hard Times and Health Insurance
In response to the growing number of New Yorkers who risk losing health insurance coverage in the current troubled economy, this guide--the first to help New Yorkers understand how to benefit from the COBRA premium assistance enacted in early 2009--presents practical advice on state and federal protections, and how to exercise them.
Merging the Markets
This study provides some insights into the profile of New York's commercial market for individuals and small businesses, and a clear-eyed look at one approach to shoring up New York's neglected Direct Pay market.
Offer, Eligibility, and Take-Up Rates of Employer-Sponsored Coverage in New York, 2005
This report examines the workers and their dependents who account for nearly 80 percent of the uninsured in New York State.
Issues and Options for Reforming New York's Private Insurance Markets
At this Fund-sponsored roundtable, held in May 2007, national experts on insurance market regulation, state regulators, insurance company CEOs, brokers, and consumer advocates came together for a clear-eyed look at New York's individual, small group, and Healthy New York program markets. Roundtable highlights are available.
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