There are only 20 days left to find the right insurance plan that meets your health and budget needs! The deadline to sign up for the New York State of Health for 2014 – and avoid a penalty- is on March 31! If you are looking for guidance, visit PuttingPatientsFirst.net. The great tools within the website
This week, along with several important articles about health care, the insurance industry and a new development in curing babies with AIDS, we are providing links to timely updates on the President’s budget and its effect on reducing innovation in the bio-pharmaceutical sector, which will undermine new medical advances and job creation.
Topping off the Weekly Dose of Health News is a reminder to fill out this brief survey on “prescriber prevails” to gauge patient experience accessing their medications. If you have already completed this survey, you do not need to do so again. If you have not, please return as soon as possible.
Below please find information on an important and exciting webinar on the new website: Putting Patients First.
This website and initiative is a useful tool in helping patients find the best healthcare plans for them, and the webinar will help advocates and individuals better understand the many tools the website has to offer.
Please join in tomorrow!
This week’s Dose brings you updates on the health exchange enrollment numbers in New York and other states, as well as articles on new tobacco-free program funding, studies on obesity and post-menopausal women, complications of the Medicaid waiver and reports of a deal with labor unions and community groups to save Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn.
This week’s Dose might look brief, but it’s big on the latest news out of Washington DC regarding New York’s Medicaid Waiver Application.
In this week’s Dose, in addition to the usual links to important updates and the latest news on health issues brewing through out the state, we are including the link to our ‘Prescriber Prevails’ survey. If you haven’t completed it yet, please take the time now to click on the link and provide us your input. We also would appreciate it, if you would share the link with your members. Thank you.
This week we have links to coverage of the recent NY State Senate public hearing regarding health insurance networks, a story on a basic health plan proposal in the Executive Budget as well as some interesting articles appearing in major dailies on union reaction to Obamacare and how obesity prevention measures need to start very early in a child’s life.
In this issue you will find a couple of new reports on the NYS health insurance exchange, data from the National Helpline, a report card from the American Lung Association and updates regarding Governor Cuomo’s budget release this week as well as a notice for an upcoming NYS Senate hearing on out of network health coverage.
Weekly Dose of Health News January 13 – 17 2014 We’re back with our first Weekly Dose of 2014. In this message, you will find a slightly changed format to provide you with shorter captions and links to the full articles. While many recent headlines focused on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and