Writings

 The intersection of recent federal healthcare and immigration policy changes will have a significant impact not only on the recipients of government-funded healthcare services and on non-U.S. citizens residing in New York, but also on the immigrants who comprise New York’s healthcare workforce.

From the standpoint of healthcare in New York State, which is the principal preoccupation of the Step Two Policy Project, the passage into law of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) on July 4, 2025, was highly consequential. What comes next for healthcare in New York is still a puzzle that policymakers and stakeholders are now beginning to confront.

Together, court-mandated outpatient treatment and involuntary removal and hospitalization represent a safety net for individuals who fall through the cracks in the system of voluntary care, often cycling through hospitals, jails, and shelters.

Community Schools represent an integrated educational approach designed to transform traditional schools into community hubs by offering comprehensive services and supports to students and their families. Linking school-based health services and Community Schools is a low-barrier, high-impact approach to improving educational and health outcomes for students, and to better engaging families and the surrounding community in supporting student success.

This paper and the related recent data exercise illustrate the resources that could be developed from existing health delivery system data.

The purpose of this Brief is to describe the existing care management infrastructure in New York and trace its evolution.

There is an old saw that the United States and Great Britain are “two great countries divided by a common language.”

School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) represent a relatively small but important component of the healthcare safety net in New York.

At the outset of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao reportedly said, “It is always darkest before it becomes totally black.”

We have begun Year Two of the Step Two Policy Project. ...

To be successful, New York’s health policies need to support the unique needs of rural communities.

Accompanied by the Disparities in Rural and Urban Mortality: New York State Chartbook by Adrienne Anderson Policy Brief: Chartbook:...

In this Policy Brief, we examine some of the wide-ranging health challenges that New York’s rural communities are facing...

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...