Examining the Impact of Global Budgets on Health Care Costs

August 1, 2003 | Program Result Report

From 1994 to 1999, the New York State Department of Health, Albany, N.Y., made a number of grants to sites throughout the state to develop prospectively paid, integrated delivery systems of regional health care providers — i.e., provider-sponsored networks of hospitals, physician groups and other provider groups.

Raising the Flag for Community Health Workers

January 26, 2010 | Program Result Report

From 2006 to 2009, staff members at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, worked to raise the profile and influence of community health workers in the health care system and among policy-makers.

Studying Expansion of Coverage and Access to Care in Three States

July 30, 2012 | Program Result Report

Researchers at the Urban Institute evaluated the impact of state health reforms in on insurance coverage and access to and use of health care in Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois, under State Health Access Reform Evaluation, an RWJF national program.

Health Tracking

March 19, 2012 | Program Result Report

Center for Studying Health System Change researchers tracked changes in the nation's health care system and developed policy analyses describing how those changes affect patients, providers, and others in their communities.

Inner-City Primary Care Centers Built as Models for N.Y.C. Health Infrastructure

January 1, 2007 | Program Result Report

Starting in 1992, the United Hospital Fund of New York created the Primary Care Development Program, which organized a consortium of NYC foundations.

State-Provider Partnerships Strengthen Addiction Treatment Access and Retention

December 1, 2011 | Program Result Report

Between 2006 and 2010, nine state-provider partnerships identified and removed barriers and changed administrative procedures in order to improve the quality of substance abuse services. RWJF supported two of the partnerships, in New York and Oklahoma.

New York Immigration Coalition Comments to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services on CMS-9989-P

September 28, 2011 | Presentation Material

Comments of the New York Immigration Coalition on Notice of Availability of Standards for Race, Ethnicity, Primary Language, Sex, and Disability Status Required by Section 4302 of the Affordable Care Act

July 28, 2011 | Presentation Material

Sustaining Health Reform in a Recession

June 1, 2010 | Journal Article

The challenges faced by Massachusetts as it attempts to sustain health reform in these difficult times provide important lessons for implementing reform in the rest of the country.

Health Reform in Massachusetts Cut the Uninsurance Rate Among Children in Half

June 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Massachusetts' 2006 health reform cut the uninsurance rate for children approximately in half in the first two years following implementation.