On Tuesday, May 5, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced that HHS has awarded approximately $101 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 164 new health center sites in 33 states and two U.S. Territories for the delivery of comprehensive primary health care services in communities that need them most.
New York is set to receive
The Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANYS), the voice for federally qualified health centers in New York, is proud to join thousands of advocates across the country in celebrating passage of the Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (H.R. 2) which will soon be signed into law by President Obama. The legislation includes a
The Legislature passed the New York State FY 2015-2015 budget on March 31, on time for the fifth consecutive year.
Click here for highlights relevant to FQHCs, prepared for CHCANYS by Brown & Weinraub, PLLC.
Click here to access a statement from Governor Cuomo’s office.
Thanks to our advocacy efforts and collaboration with the Primary Care Development Corporation, the NYS Department of Health has announced that they will delay the rate reductions for Patient-Centered Medical Home recognition under the 2011 NCQA standards until January 2016 instead of April 1, 2015, as previously proposed. Payments for PCMH 2014 standards
On March 23, 2015, CHCANYS offered testimony during a Preliminary Budget Hearing of the New York City Council’s Health Committee that focused on the Mayor’s plans to expand health centers as the City confronts a severe shortage of primary care services in at-risk communities.
CHCANYS’ Senior Policy Director Beverly Grossman urged the
New York, N.Y. - Dr. Savita Gopal, a 27-year-old resident physician at the Family Health Center of Harlem, sat in front of a computer last Thursday, peppering Jacob Doble, a 10-year-old from Harlem, with questions for 20 minutes.
As Dr. Gopal typed copious notes, Jacob, accompanied by his mother, Mekisha Hawkins, said he had been to the emergency room
We need you to reach out immediately to your State legislators (Assembly and Senate) regarding the Department of Health’s recently announced rate changes for Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition, set to go into effect on April 1, 2015.
DOH has reduced the rate add-on for PCMH recognition under the 2011 NCQA Standards and has implemented
The NYS Senate and Assembly have issued one-house bills in response to Governor Cuomo’s FY15-16 proposed budget. Click here for an overview of health and mental hygiene-related highlights. Click here for an appropriations matrix.
While these bills do not include either the changes to the 340B program or the block granting of the SBHC and primary