Writings

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...

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

...we were very pleased to see the number of proposals in the 2024 State of the State (SOS) that dovetail well with our areas of interest...

In the Health sector, the most significant announcement in the SOS was that the State has received approval from CMS of its 1115 waiver...

Technology and medical progress are disrupting the hospital industry, enabling more procedures to be performed outside of the hospital...

We think it’s important to understand the background of the increasing numbers of financially distressed hospitals in New York...