Writings

This Commentary builds on two others regarding the controversy about the Cuomo administration’s nursing home policies during Covid-19.

There are two important facts that help account for why these transfers did not measurably increase deaths of nursing home residents ...

Four-and-a-half years after the Covid-19 pandemic began, people are still reckoning with nursing home policy decisions made by NYS officials

Mount Sinai Health System identified the need to more efficiently and accurately collect patient consent for health information exchange...

The principal focus of this paper is the Medical Indemnity Fund , which was created in 2011 as part of the Medicaid Redesign Team...

This paper discusses a strategy that a growing number of states are pursuing to constrain growth in healthcare costs...

Our first Spotlight, posted today, focuses on Advanced Health Network and Recovery Health Solutions (AHN/RHS), operating in affiliation.

By “fiscal frameworks,” I’m referring to two different types of frameworks...

Health Data and Information Series #3 Introduction Health information exchange (HIE) is already an indispensable part of the healthcare...

...this Commentary is more of a rumination about the challenges of creating not only transparency but “openness”...

The purposes of this Addendum to my March 19 Commentary titled California Dreaming and the MCO Tax are to ...

The Health section of the one-house budgets the Senate and Assembly released last week upended the usual pattern.

Funding for financially distressed hospitals is one of the two “burning houses” in the FY 25 Health budget...

Governor Kathy Hochul introduced her Executive Budget for State fiscal year 2024-25 (FY 25) on January 16, 2024...

I want to use the analysis of this proposal as an example to describe the process of analyzing complex public policy issues.

What I want to talk about today is the dynamics of the Budget process...

Governor Kathy Hochul presented the FY 25 Executive Budget for State fiscal year 2024-25 on Tuesday in Albany.

The lack of comprehensive health data, information, and policy analysis infrastructure in New York hampers the ability of policymakers to...