CHCANYS is asking the State to add $20M to the D&TC Uncompensated Care Pool (UCP) in Fiscal Year 2017 to support ongoing services for the uninsured at health centers. It will take all of us working together to secure this funding! The resources below have been designed to assist you in your advocacy efforts. If you need something that is not listed here, please e-mail us at grassroots@chcanys.org or call Kate Graetzer, Advocacy and Communications Manager, at 518-434-1115.
Contact Your State Legislators about Indigent Care Funding Please reach out to your NYS Assembly Members and Senators today and ask them to send a letter to their leadership, urging them to increase indigent care funding for Diagnostic and Treatment Centers (D&TC) by $20M (including creating a $10M mitigation pool) in this year’s one house budget bill. Don’t wait until Advocacy Day - legislators are determining budget priorities NOW.
Ask all of your Assembly Members to send this letter to Speaker Carl Heastie.
Ask your Republican Senators to send this letter to Senator John Flanagan.