1+ week, 1+ day ago   (339+ words) New York awarded $76.2 million to 56 organizations for 90 projects intended to connect rural hospitals, health centers, behavioral health providers and community groups into stronger regional care networks. The Rural Community Health Integration Initiative includes about $22.7 million for planning and $53.5 million for…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (481+ words) New York officials are calling on the Trump administration to release $87 million in federal homeland-security money they say remains withheld from the state after a court challenge restored part of a larger reduction. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (69+ words) New York is upgrading its Medicaid system amid intense scrutiny from the Trump administration, which has pressured the state over alleged fraud. Under federal fire, New York enacts stricter Medicaid oversight Under mounting pressure from federal watchdogs threatening to slash…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (638+ words) ROCHESTER — On Monday, June 1, Rhonda Burnap was met with some startling news: the state human services department had terminated her workplace's Medicaid billing status. "We are law-abiding, correct-billing, legitimate providers that are doing our best to follow all the rules…...

5+ mon, 2+ day ago   (895+ words) “These numbers could have been cleared up in a phone call, so it’s really slapdash,” said Fiscal Policy Institute senior health policy adviser Michael Kinnucan, whose recent analysis called attention to the Trump administration’s inaccurate claim. The mistake appeared in…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (303+ words) Alister Martin, the newly appointed Health Commissioner of New York City, has laid out his plan to tackle the city’s affordability crisis. Martin views affordability as a public health concern intertwined with political and economic factors. In a piece on…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago   (584+ words) The disputed statistic was tied to statements from CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, who had pointed to roughly 5 million people receiving personal care help in a state with about 6.8 million Medicaid enrollees. Federal officials later said the actual count was about…...