Next Meeting:
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
10:00 am - 12:00 am
MS Society, 733 Third Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY
between 45th & 46th Streets
Previous featured speakers and their presentations are below:
February 26, 2013
Mark Scherzer, NYFAHC Legislative Counsel, New Health Insurance Markets Emerging: Will we be able
to “Keep What We Have?” Tuesday, January 15, 2013 Guest Speaker: Lynne Quincy, Senior Health Policy Analyst, Consumer Union. New Health Insurance Explainers - Did You Get Yours? Do They Help Consumers Understand and Make Decisions? Tuesday, February 21
Guest Speaker: Carrie Tracy, Health Policy Associate, Community Service Society Incentivizing Patient Hospital Financial Assistance Policies: How to fix New York’s Hospital Indigent Care Program November 15, 2011
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Guest
Speaker: Chuck Bell, Programs
Director, Consumers Union EmblemHealth’s Plan to
Convert to a For-Profit Company: History, Current Status and Policy
Implications
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Guest
Speaker: Lara Kassel,
Coordinator, Medicaid Matters & Medicaid Redesign Team Member Medicaid Redesign 2.0
and What’s Next?
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Guest Speaker: Denise Spor, NYS Department of Health, Medicaid Policy & Care Delivery Group “Health Homes on the Horizon in New York State” Tuesday, June 28, 2011
"Legislative Wrap-Up: Establishing a Health Benefit Exchange and Changes to External Review in New York"
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Guest Speaker: Peter Newell, Director, Health Insurance Project, United Hospital Fund
"Establishing a Health Benefit Exchange in New York"
Tuesday April 19, 2011
Guest Speaker: Devin Boerm, Health Policy Specialist, Progressive States Network “Advancing Health Security by Ensuring Strong Exchanges”
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Guest Speakers: Priya Mendon, Director, Community Health Advocates and Greg Otten, Community Health Advocates Coordinator, CIDNY
“The Affordable Care Act after One Year: Consumer Assistance Programs Helping People Access Coverage and Care”
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Guest Speaker: Lara Kassel, Coordinator Medicaid Matters
“Medicaid Redesign in New York: A View from the Community Representative on the Team”
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Guest Speaker: Danielle Holahan, Co-Director Health insurance Project, United Hospital Fund
“Revisioning Medicaid as Part of New York’s Coverage Continuum”
2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Agenda
Tuesday, October 25, 2010
Healthcare reform advisory committee
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Guest
Speakers:Eileen Hayes, Assistant Chief, NYS Insurance Department Health
Bureau Ilene Margolin, Senior Vice President, GHI an EmblemHealth
Company “New York’s Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan”
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Guest Speaker: Robin Gelburd, President, Fair Health
“Estimating Out-of-Network Costs in Advance: A New Web Portal for Consumers”
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Guest Speaker: Shelly Nortz, Timothy’s Law Coalition and Coalition for the Homeless
“Mental Health Parity Review and Update”
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Speakers: Mark Scherzer, NYFAHC Legislative Counsel and
Kim
Calder, National Multiple Sclerosis Society Director of Insurance
Initiatives “Federal Health Care Reform is LAW – What Happens in the
First Year?” Agenda
Febuary 16, 2010
Guest Speaker: Claire McAndrew, Health Policy Analyst, Families USA
“Proposals for Wellness and Prevention in Health Reform – the Good and the Not So Good” NYFAHC’s NYS Policy Agenda – Heidi Siegfried Guest Speaker:Mark Scherzer, Access to Coverage in New York State After Health Reform |  
2009November 17, 2009
Presentation: Reform of Long Term Care, Services, and Supports in Federal Health Reform view presentation here (HealthReform.LTSS
October 27, 2009
Guest Speaker: "What can Health Care Reform do for People with Disabilities”? Barbara Kornblau, Dean and Professor of Nursing, School of Health Professions and Studies at the University of Michigan – Flint and American Association of People With Disabilities
September 15, 2009
Guest Speaker: Paul Precht, Director of Policy and Communications, Medicare Rights Center. View Paul's Report and Consumers Union snynopsis of the report.
August 18,2009
Guest Speakers: Kristi Martin-Associate Policy Analyst, American Cancer Society CancerAction Network How a “Benchmark for Coverage” Covers Care for Patients with Serious Chronic Conditions. Peter Newell, Co-Director United Hospital Fund Health Insurance Project New York State and the Emerging Federal Healthcare Reform Blueprint
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Guest Speaker - Melinda Dutton, Partner, Health Care Division, Manatt Streamlining New York’sMedicaid Excess Income Program; Manatt’s report and the New York Medicaid Spend-down
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Guest Speaker - Cheryl Fish-Parcham, Deputy Director, Health Policy, Families USA “Thelatest Landscape on Federal Health Care Reform and its Potential Impact on New York State”
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