Just over one year ago, I wrote about the Department of Health and Human Service’s (“HHS”) $105 million award to support 1,333 federally qualified health centers (“Health Centers”) across the United States improve the quality of comprehensive care provided to patients. It seems like déjà vu, as it was announced last month that HHS set aside $125 million in
Continue Reading Community Health Centers Receive Quality Improvement Grants
This post is written in connection with my colleague Vanessa Bongiorno’s recent post, where she eloquently summarized the New York Department of Health’s (“DOH”) findings of the multi-agency study on the impact of regulated adult-use marijuana in New York.
In the report, DOH found that even though marijuana use does contain risks, there are benefits associated with
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This post marks the end of our series on recent activity by the New York State Legislature in the health sector (introduced here), and follows posts on legislation impacting the pharmaceutical industry (here), hospitals (here), long term care and aging (here), behavioral health (here), and intellectual/developmental disability services (here
As we noted in previous blogs, the New York State Legislature has addressed a number of significant hospital related issues during the 2018 session, including indigent care funding (discussed here), the third iteration of the Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program (discussed here) and the funding of the Health Care Transformation Fund in connection with the acquisition
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Earlier this month the New York State Department of Health released the first results of its recently adopted Medicaid redesign efforts, the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (“DSRIP”), in four core areas: (1) metric performance, (2) success of projects, (3) total Medicaid spending and (4) managed care expenditures. The passing scores stem from the collaborative efforts of the Performing
Continue Reading New York State Receives Passing Grades On Its First DSRIP Report Card
As we reported in our annual series highlighting the various healthcare related provisions of the 2018-19 New York State Budget (here), the Enacted Budget reflects the state’s overall policy towards consolidation of the home care marketplace. Nowhere is the effort to force consolidation more apparent than in the Licensed
Continue Reading DOH Issues Additional Guidance on New LHCSA Moratorium and other Restrictions Imposed by the 2018-19 Enacted New York State Budget.
As we have discussed in an earlier blog post, the federal administrative agencies have been placing greater emphasis on being more transparent and promoting “interoperability”.
As such, on April 24, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) proposed changes to its Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System to promote better access to
Continue Reading Seeking Interoperability: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
With so much happening in the cannabis industry we thought we’d take this time to highlight some of the industry’s most recent happenings.
This, the last of our posts on the 2018-19 New York State Health Budget (the “Enacted Budget”), focuses on an area of healthcare that has perhaps the broadest impact of the sector as a whole — managed care. A prior post in the series (
Continue Reading The Broadest Impact: 2018-19 New York State Managed Care Budget Highlights
There are probably few in the healthcare community in New York State who would disagree that, among provider types, hospitals have typically received the most attention from policymakers. The hospitals themselves might argue the point, or point out that having the attention of policymakers is
Continue Reading Small Issues with Big Impacts: 2018-19 New York State Hospital Budget Highlights