(Released May 12, 2002) our Right to Specialist Care: A Survey of HMOs in New York is the fourth in a series of reports that examine compliance by New York HMOs with New York’s Managed Care Bill of Rights. The current report investigates how well HMOs are following New York laws on access to specialty care.
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(Released February 14, 2002) This report finds that two years after the Governor and Legislature raised cigarette taxes to provide health coverage for one million uninsured New Yorkers, only a small fraction of those promised health insurance have actually received coverage.
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(Released October 2, 2001) PPEF tries to determine what the President’s tax-credit proposal would mean for uninsured adults in New York State by asking:
Is the proposed tax-credit enough to purchase health insurance coverage in New York State?
Is the proposed tax-credit enough to offset the cost of health insurance so that coverage is affordable for low and moderate income New Yorkers?
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(Released September 1, 2001) This guide explains how to use the rights and protections that New York State grants health care consumers—laws that help improve your access to health care and help resolve problems with health insurance companies.
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(Released May 31, 2001) While some states have eliminated the asset test for families and low-income single adults without dependent children as part of their Medicaid or Medicaid expansion programs, many states continue to maintain asset limitations in their traditional Medicaid and/or Medicaid expansion programs.
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