Recent News, Commentary & Feature Stories
Carol Levine: Can a Medicare Beneficiary Assigned to Observation Services Appeal the Decision?
“Observation” instead of “inpatient” status can cost patients and their families thousands of dollars, both for their hospital stays and following rehab services. A decision allowing a class action suit against HHS and CMS may finally alter that.
A New Chapter: Anthony Shih, MD, MPH, Becomes UHF President
Dr. Anthony Shih has become the new president of United Hospital Fund, bringing an extensive background in health policy, health system performance improvement, quality improvement, and population health.
Medicaid in New York: Innovating in an Era of Uncertainty
The themes of innovation and efficiency ran through UHF's annual Medicaid Conference, held July 20, 2017, at the New York Academy of Medicine and attended by more than 450 people.
Aiming for “Best Practices”: UHF Learning Collaborative Focuses on Outpatient Antibiotic Use
UHF’s Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative has entered its second stage, with participating health systems and hospitals joining in a Learning Collaborative to improve prescribing for adults with acute respiratory infections.
Jim Tallon: Health Care’s Circular Journey
A look back over the past decades shows tremendous progress—and a would-be retreat that threatens the health care of millions.
Nonprofit and Nursing Leaders Elected to UHF Board
United Hospital Fund (UHF) announced today that Jennifer L. Howse, PhD, and Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx, PhD, RN, FAAN, have been elected to its board of directors.
New York State Medicaid Director Announces Initiative for Young Children at UHF Conference
New York State Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson announced the First 1000 Days on Medicaid Initiative at United Hospital Fund’s annual Medicaid conference on July 20. The Initiative aims to improve access to health and social services for children during their first three years.
Learning Collaborative: How Do We Prioritize Patients’ Goals?
The second meeting of participants in a learning collaborative that is part of the Patient-Reported Outcomes in Primary Care–New York (PROPC–NY) initiative took place at United Hospital Fund on June 20. A project of UHF’s Quality Institute, PROPC–NY, supported by a $300,000 grant from the Engelberg Foundation, aims to better capture how patients experience and evaluate their own health care, in order to improve care planning and its impact.
Health Affairs Article Highlights UHF’s Partnerships in Early Childhood Development Initiative
An innovative partnership among United Hospital, the Altman Foundation, and The New York Community Trust is helping health care and neighborhood social services providers address social, environmental, and economic factors influencing early childhood health and long-term well-being. A Health Affairs blog article about the collaboration, Interest in Early Childhood Health Leads to Three Funders Working Together, describes the groundbreaking project.
New Analysis Finds Significantly Higher Prescription Drug Costs for Medicaid and Commercial Insurers Across New York State
Prescription drug spending increased significantly for health plans participating in the Medicaid Managed Care and the commercial small group markets in recent years, according to a new report from United Hospital Fund (UHF).
PECD Learning Collaborative: Getting to Know You
Building working relationships was the challenge at the first Partnerships for Early Childhood Development learning collaborative meeting, when health care providers and community agencies, many of them strangers to each other, brainstormed on a common vision.
Carol Levine: Implementing the CARE Act: What’s Working? What’s Not?
It’s been a year since New York State’s CARE Act went into effect, with the goal of ensuring that patients know they can name a family caregiver before they’re discharged from the hospital. Is it making a difference?
Congressional “Repeal and Replace” Health Plan Ill-Suited and Destructive for New York
The American Health Care Act (AHCA), approved by the U.S. House of Representatives and currently under consideration by the U.S. Senate, would undermine the dramatic insurance coverage gains that New York has realized under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), destabilize the individual market, and increase premiums and cost-sharing for lower-income individuals, particularly those under 35, a new UHF report finds.
New Report Outlines Ways to Strengthen Consumer Access to Provider Networks in New York State
With health insurance premiums rising, delivery system reforms reshaping how services are provided, and the future of the Affordable Care Act in doubt, a United Hospital Fund report released today outlines ways to help consumers choose and use provider networks, and access timely care through stronger safeguards and improved disclosure.
Jim Tallon: Breaking a Fifty-Year Compact
The approach taken by the latest health care proposal would break a 50-year federal-state compact and threaten New York’s coverage and quality achievements.
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