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Post-Acute Care and COVID-19: An Already Fraught Decision Becomes Even More Difficult Informed decisions about post-acute care are even more urgent now, as the peril is far greater. This commentary describes the challenges surrounding post-acute care decisions and explains CMS's ...

To Prepare for the Next Pandemic, Health Care Needs to Tackle Racism In the wake of accumulated racial injustices and entrenched inequities highlighted by COVID-19, there is a need and an opportunity for health care leaders to confront racism; Ram ...

For Health Care, a New Day and a Long Road Ahead Post-election commentary: Achieving progress will be immensely challenging, given the likelihood of a divided Congress and the competing priority of addressing the ongoing pandemic. The most difficult challenge will ...

Working Toward a Brighter Future For many, 2020 will be remembered for unprecedented pain and suffering. Not only for the 20 million U.S. cases of COVID-19 and 350,000 deaths just last year alone, but also for the widespread ...

A Shot in the Arm: American Rescue Plan Act Boosts Health Coverage Affordability This HealthWatch looks at the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), which deepens affordability subsidies, provides premium tax credits to higher-income individuals and families, and creates new options ...

Helping the Asian American Community Recover from the Devastation of COVID-19 Disclaimer: The views presented here are of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of United Hospital Fund, its staff, or its board of directors. January 2020 ...

Food Insecurity and Health Care: Addressing Food Insecurity through the Health Care System in New York Quantifying the health impact of food insecurity on New Yorkers--and reviewing potential solutions to alleviate food insecurity's burden on families and individuals. The accompanying ...

Heading Home from a Skilled Nursing Facility: Interventions and Tools for Improving the Transition This report and toolkit describes the UHF Skilled Nursing Facility Learning Collaborative's work, profiles several interventions undertaken by the participating facilities, and provides resources for SNFs ...

The Pandemic’s Most Important Lesson: A Call for Bold Change Disclaimer: The views presented here are of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of United Hospital Fund, its staff, or its board of directors. This commentary ...

A Turning Point in the Pandemic and at UHF Oxiris Barbot's message from the fall 2022 issue of Blueprint. As I take the reins of this 143-year-old nonprofit organization dedicated to building an effective and equitable health care system for ...

The Ripple Effect of Firearms: How Families, Communities, and Society in the U.S. Are Affected by Firearms A United Hospital Fund analysis, conducted in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group, reveals the devastating impact of gun violence nationwide and in ...

A Look Back—and Ahead: UHF's 2017 Annual Report UHF's latest annual report highlights our work over the past year to build a more effective health care system for all New Yorkers. It's an interesting time for health policy, and ...

New York's Small Group Market Isn't Feeling Well-and a Trump Administration Proposal May Make Things Worse Analyzing the difficulties New York's small group insurance market faces in light of federal changes. A HealthWatch Brief New York's small group insurance market ...

Advancing the Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care for Small Practices Moving from theory to real world, a new grant-funded project is testing an innovative “continuum-based framework” that helps small and medium-sized groups of primary care providers integrate behavioral ...

Primary Care Quality Improvement Resource Compendia Supporting the quality improvement efforts of primary care practices in New York's APC program, two compendia of resources cover the 26 quality measures of the APC Core Measure Set. To support the quality improvement ...

Networks at the Nexus: Revisiting New York State's Provider Network Standards and Protections A health insurance brief examining consumer protections and network adequacy standards in New York and recommending a series of steps the State could take to ensure transparency ...

New York Counties by Population, Medicaid Enrollment, and Enrollment Rates (Table) County-level table listing the estimated percentage of population enrolled in Medicaid for at least one month between June 2015 and May 2016, for all counties in New York State ...

Patient-Reported Outcomes: Moving PROs Into Practice Pragmatic approaches to choosing the right Patient-Reported Outcomes instrument for a practice's clinical priorities, patient population, and resources are discussed in this webinar presentation from the PROPC-NY learning collaborative. Pragmatic approaches to choosing the ...

The Big Picture VI: New York's Private and Public Insurance Markets An overview of New York's insurance markets, analyzing enrollment and financial data across health plans and lines of business to create a comprehensive snapshot of the markets since implementation ...

New York's Temporary Premium Subsidies: Meeting Immediate Goals and Yielding Useful Lessons A snapshot brief on a temporary subsidy program implemented as part of the Affordable Care Act rollout-and lessons to be learned from this creative and effective program. With ...

The Next Wave: The Impact of Two New Proposed Mergers on New York's Health Insurance Market A Big Picture snapshot report examining two new proposed mergers of large health plans, focusing on the implications for New York markets. Policy changes ...

Levers of Change: UHF's 2015 Annual Report This year's annual report highlights how UHF's strategic use of resources to target key levers of change is helping move health care reform from theory to reality, to create concrete improvements in the ...

Setting the Stage for Payment Reform: Updating New York's Regulations on Risk Transfers Between Health Plans and Providers A timely look at New York's policies and regulations on risk-transfer agreements between insurance plans and health care providers, an increasingly common ...

Presentations from "Medicaid in New York: Transforming the Delivery System" See presentations from the 2015 United Hospital Fund conference “Medicaid in New York: Transforming the Delivery System.” The presentations below were featured components of the United Hospital Fund conference Medicaid ...

A Blueprint for Universal Health Insurance Coverage in New York The first comprehensive analysis of the elements needed for universal health insurance in New York State, this major new Fund publication presents the costs and benefits of several model strategies ...

Antibiotic Stewardship for Acute Respiratory Infections: The Milstein Toolkit for Ambulatory Care Practices A practical collection of tools for organizations developing outpatient antibiotic stewardship programs. Includes data collection tools and surveys, as well as overviews of interventions implemented, lessons learned ...

Making Change Work: UHF's 2013 Annual Report As the Fund continues to engage with health care’s most important issues and their impact on real people, the goal remains clear: to identify opportunities, shape meaningful strategies for improvement, and move ...

New York Medicare ACO Performance: Cost and Quality Results Raise Bigger Questions This HealthWatch focuses on the financial performance of accountable care organizations based in New York State in 2016, and compares their quality performance to that of similar programs ...

Patient-Centered Medical Homes in New York, 2018 Update: Drivers of Growth and Challenges for the Future Our annual brief and chartbook outlining the adoption of the Patient-Centered Medical Home model across New York, by region and by type of practice ...

Plan and Provider Opportunities to Move Toward Integrated Family Health A framework for integrated family health care The related press release can be found here . Family dynamics can influence the health of children in profound ways. Evidence also suggests the ...

Sniffle, Sneeze... No Antibiotics, Please: Ambulatory Stewardship Strategies for Acute Respiratory Infections Presentation from an outpatient antibiotic stewardship meeting. A presentation from the launch of the UHF-funded outpatient antibiotic stewardship meeting was held on May 12, 2016. A presentation, Sniffle ...

Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infections in New York City: A Model for Collaboration Peer-reviewed article on a model for developing outpatient antibiotic stewardship programs in New York City, published in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. A review ...

The Ripple Effect: National and State Estimates of the U.S. Opioid Epidemic’s Impact on Children Data map out national and state-by-state impact of opioid epidemic on children The press release can be found here . The nation's opioid epidemic ...

NYSDOH Primary Care Quality Rating Stakeholder Workgroup: Final Recommendations Recommendations for designing more user-friendly and meaningful primary care provider profiles that could help inform the health care decisions New Yorkers commonly face. Participants from consumer advocacy groups, providers, payers, and ...

Lessons from the Great Recession: New York Medicaid Enrollment During the COVID-19 Crisis New York State Medicaid enrollment trends during the Great Recession of 2007-2009, and the impact of state and federal actions taken then, and lessons for the current ...

Public Comment on Proposed Federal Rule on "Medicaid and CHIP Programs" This comment by Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, was submitted in response to a new rule proposed by CMS. The comment below, by Carol ...

Better Partnerships for Better Health For a forthright exchange and true partnership with their clients' health care providers, community-based organizations have to become targeted and systematic in how they serve their clients, and be able to demonstrate that. Common goals ...

The Certainty of Uncertainty In the wake of the elections, health policy's future is uncertain, but some constants—like the centrality of New York to health care reform, and UHF's own role—remain. In the wake of the presidential and ...

Trump Administration Health Reimbursement Arrangements Put ACA Subsidies at Risk for Low-Income Workers This brief explains the workings of individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements (ICHRAs) and examines their significant risks for New York consumers, particularly lower-income enrollees. The associated press ...

Our Core Values In an extraordinary time, articulating our core values is a public statement of accountability. An organization's core values are generally not an ideal topic for a public essay. Yet these are not ordinary times. Each day we ...

2018 and Beyond The past year was a remarkable one for health policy, with uncertainty and flux on both federal and state levels—and several major trends posing new challenges and opportunities. For those of us working in health policy ...

Interesting Times Unprecedented uncertainty at the federal level about health policy hs clarified the continued relevance and importance of UHF, says Tony Shih in his annual report president's message. It's an interesting time to be working in health policy. Since ...

New York Medicaid Program Outlines a Vision for Enhanced Pediatric Care Model New York State report puts forth a new vision for strengthening pediatric primary care. The New York State Medicaid program has released a report that puts forth a ...

COVID-19 Pandemic Perspectives: Community Health Centers on the Brink At this moment of need, it is essential that our federal and state governments become aware of the looming bankruptcy of community health. United Hospital Fund has a long history of ...

During the Pandemic, Home Health Aides Deserve Respect, Protection, and Fair Pay Home health aides are the essential workforce who make it possible for thousands of New Yorkers to have good days at home and to stay out of institutions ...