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06.02.11

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06.02.11

Medicaid Managed Care 2004 Quality Update

This report was prepared by the PHSP Coalition based on findings in the 2004 Managed Care Plan Performance Report produced by the New York State Department of Health. The PHSP Coalition is an association of 15 health plans serving nearly 1.8 million Medicaid, Family Health Plus and Child Health ...


06.02.11

Recommendations for Standardized Consumer Consent Policies and Procedures

Legal Committee: William Bernstein, Robert Belfort, Melinda Dutton New York Statewide Collaboration Process (SCP) and New York Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC) November 25, 2008


06.02.11

Improving Commercial Reimbursement for Community Health Centers: New York

For this study, in-depth analyses of six CHC networks across New York State with high proportions of commercially-insured patients were conducted to examine their experiences with commercial and public payers. The executive management of each CHC participated in a structured interview. In ...


06.02.11

Understanding the New State County Paradigm: The 2005 New York State Medicaid Cap Legislation

The new cap on the local share of Medicaid costs in New York means the State will absorb the fiscal impact of future changes to the program. With the State now reaping a greater benefit from cuts in benefits, eligibility, services, and rates, the fiscal and political pressures are ...


06.02.11

First Comprehensive Review of the HITECH Act’s Implementation

Manatt Health today released a comprehensive review of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act’s implementation to date. HITECH was a key component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, designed to improve the quality, efficiency, and ...


04.14.11

Let Twin Towers Lessee Build, Get on With Life

You could call this column an open letter to Justice Anthony Kennedy. On January 7, 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, 535 U.S. 687 (2002). The central issue in the case was whether government – ...


04.14.11

Voters Ride The Property Rights Roller Coaster

Property rights. It’s the issue of the day – every day. It is hard to pick up a newspaper without being confronted with property rights stories. They cover the country. From the East Coast, we get stories about the still smoldering aftermath of Kelo v. City of New London, 125 S. Ct ...


04.14.11

Though No Blockbuster, ''Lingle'' Disentangles Takings, Due Process

When it issued its recent decision in Lingle v. Chevron U.S.A. Inc., 2005 WL 1200710, the U.S. Supreme Court untangled a quarter-century-old jurisprudential knot that it confessed probably was caused by its near absence from the field of takings law since 1922. Lingle involved a challenge ...


04.14.11

San Remo Hotel: When Ship Comes In – But Only Passes By

Twenty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court established a “ripeness” hurdle for property owners wanting to litigate Fifth Amendment claims that government regulations took their property for public use without compensation. To give federal courts jurisdiction to hear them, the owners ...