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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
LaRay Brown, Senior VP, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, 125 Worth Street, Room 513, New York City, NY 10013, 212, 788-3449, BROWNL@nychhc.org
This presentation will discuss the efforts of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) to enroll uninsured patients into the public health insurance programs for which they are eligible, but not already enrolled. It will also discuss HHC’s efforts to help create new insurance programs, for patients who are not eligible for Medicaid or one of the other existing public programs.
The New York City Health and Hospitals serves approximately 1.3 million individuals a year, of whom approximately 545,000 are uninsured. Nearly two-thirds of the estimated 900,000 uninsured people in New York City who report using health services each year receive some of these services at an HHC facility. About half of the 1.7 million uninsured New York City residents (900,000) are eligible for public health insurance programs but are not enrolled. Most of them are low income working adults between the ages of 19 and 64.
HHC has taken undertaken several initiatives to expand health insurance coverage and to enroll its uninsured patients into public health insurance plans, including Medicaid, Child Health Plus (CHP) and now Family Health Plus (FHP).
The paper will discuss several of these efforts
- Partnership with the New York City Medicaid agency to cross-train staff and have Medicaid application offices co-located in all HHC facilities.
- Creation of a low-cost small business insurance product.
- Use of TANF/MOE funds to provide outpatient and prevention services to low-income patients not eligible for public health coverage programs.
- Conduct an aggressive legislative advocacy effort for simplification of applications and enrollment processes for public health coverage programs.
Learning Objectives:
Keywords: Public Hospitals, Access to Health Care
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.