In an unexpected twist for New York's budget negotiations, state leaders are considering a plan that would sharply reduce wage supplements for home-care aides and redirect the savings to a subsidy for employer-sponsore Read More
Tag: Medicaid
As New York's health-care industry agitates for more money from the state budget, two of its most influential lobbying groups are airing TV ads that make alarmist and inaccurate claims about Medicaid. Read More
During testimony on the state budget last week, a hospital industry official made an attention-grabbing but misleading claim – that New York's Medicaid payments to providers are "the worst in the United States." Read More
New York’s Medicaid program is currently on a crash course for fiscal disaster in the near future, warns Bill Hammond. Read More
Governor Hochul is releasing the brakes on Medicaid, allowing state spending on the safety-net health plan to increase more than twice as fast as it typically did during the Cuomo administration. Read More
After Governor Hochul’s budget unveiling this afternoon, Empire Center experts offered their reactions to the latest framework. Read More
Attorney General Letitia James' recent lawsuits against nursing homes have not only exposed dangerous conditions for the residents – but also dangerous blind spots at the Health Department. Read More