3/9/12 – Urgent Appeal: We Need to Hear Your Stories in order to Fight for “Prescriber Prevails”! Gov. Cuomo restored patient protections in regard to access to contraception but left all other Medicaid patients without vital protections and access to necessary medications.
3/8/12 – Urgent Action: We Need to Hear Your Stories in order to Fight for “Prescriber Prevails”! We Need to Tell the Governor Patients Have Been Wronged
3/8/12 – A coalition of minority advocacy groups joined many black and Hispanic state legislators to push Gov. Cuomo to restore patient protections in the Medicaid pharmacy benefit.
3/7/12 – Leading patient advocacy groups released a statement today that acknowledged the correct decision made by Gov. Cuomo to allow Medicaid recipients access to all forms of contraception. But they also urge the Governor to address the lack of patient protections for other vulnerable populations.
3/6/12 – …Patient advocates, health care providers and many members of the NYS Legislature are fighting to restore those patient protections in the 2012-2013 budget. They held a press conference last week urging the Legislature and governor to take action. Here’s the video from the event.
3/2/12 – At the news event mentioned in the previous blog, Sen. Hannon joined Assemblyman Peter Rivera, Assemblyman Karim Camara and multiple groups of patient advocates to express his support for restoring patient protections back to the NYS 2012-2013 budget.
3/2/12 – Last week, the blog featured Tracey Brooks of Family Planning Advocates, who discussed how the implementation of the new Medicaid Pharmacy Benefits policy limited women’s access to contraception. Tracy also spoke at a press conference this week at the Capitol where advocates and legislators gathered to urge lawmakers and the Governor to reinstate patient protections…
2/27/12 – Here is an informative NY Times article that gives the status of many states’ efforts to create a health insurance exchange in compliance with Pres. Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
2/24/12 – We are pleased to offer our readers a guest blogger today! President & CEO of Family Planning Advocates, M. Tracey Brooks, explains how the implementation of Medicaid Redesign Team proposal #11, which bundles pharmacy benefits into Medicaid Managed Care, has affected access to certain contraceptives
2/17/12 – Today, staffs from the Governor’s Office, the Department of Health and the Department of Financial Services held a meeting on the state’s plans for a health benefit exchange…The presentation covered primarily business operations aspects of the exchange, including an operations blueprint, exchange set up, core systems, outreach and marketing, quality health plan management and regulatory compliance and reporting.