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4/3/12 – Eliminating disparities in health care is an important step toward the goals of reducing health care costs and increasing quality of care for all populations. Some leading hospitals and medical organizations have adapted their health care delivery systems to better serve minority populations in an effort to reduce medical errors, shorten lengths of hospital stays, and lower the number of costly emergency room visits attributed to racial and ethnic disparities.

4/2/12 – This weekend, a Wall Street Journal article summed up where various states are on implementing health exchanges, regardless of the Supreme Court outcome…By now, New Yorkers are aware that the final state budget did not include provisions for a health care exchange infrastructure. Governor Cuomo has vowed to move ahead with an Executive Order.

3/30/12 – Several patient advocacy groups released a statement today regarding the fight to restore prescriber prevails in the NYS Budget.

3/26/12 – A little over two years have passed since the Affordable Care Act became the law of the land. Today, the Supreme Court starts its historic three-day run of arguments over the health care reform law.

3/23/12 – Yesterday, radio and TV interviews highlighted the importance of protecting our most vulnerable population by restoring prescriber prevails to the NYS Budget this year.

3/22/12 – The Health Budget Conference Committee meeting that was originally scheduled for Monday at 5pm and then postponed will finally occur at 1:30pm today. This is our last chance for both the NYS Assembly and Senate to include “prescriber prevails” in the NYS Budget for Medicaid patients.

3/20/12 – There’s still time to take action in the fight to restore “prescriber prevails”! The NYS Senate and Assembly Health Budget Conference Committee was postponed yesterday to today at 5pm. The more calls we make TODAY, the closer we are to winning this battle.

3/20/12 – I saw an article in last week’s Times Union that caught my eye. The article discusses how Capital District Physicians Health Plan (CDPHP), the Capital Region’s largest insurer, is expanding a new payment model to encourage better coordinated primary care.

3/19/12 – As the date for the Supreme Court to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act draws near, the Court has agreed to release same-day audio recordings of oral arguments. While a number of news outfits were pushing for permission to televise the proceedings, the Court denied that request.

3/19/12 – Your help is needed now more than ever. “Prescriber Prevails” protections for Medicaid has a major turning point TODAY at 5pm at the NYS Assembly & Senate Health Budget Conference Committee.