Health care providers get windfall from obscure billing practice
Gov. Kathy Hochul is looking to amend a billing dispute resolution process that has been lucrative for healthcare providers.
State regulators sign off on health insurance premiums
The Empire Center's Bill Hammond weighs in on premiums for health insurance plans requiring approval from state regulators.
New York’s massive Medicaid population costing state and health care providers
Empire Center for Public Policy's Bill Hammond makes the case for policies that transition New Yorkers off of Medicaid.
The complicated web of nursing home finances
Empire Center for Public Policy's Bill Hammond explored how the majority of nursing homes are structured in New York.
DOJ lawsuit alleges state facilitated Medicaid fraud
The Trump administration is suing the state for alleged Medicaid fraud in the operation of a multi-billion dollar home care program.
New York trails nation in hospital quality ratings
The latest federal review of hospital metrics from around the country found that New York continues to trail almost every other state.
State overhauls consumer directed home care program
A new middleman has been tapped by the Hochul administration to oversee a popular state home care program.
Health official’s testimony confirms problematic pandemic response
Lack of coordination and sidelining of health experts were hallmarks of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's response to COVID-19.
Learning from the public health mistakes of New York’s past
If you want to avoid repeating your past, you have to learn from it.
Curtain peeled back on state’s opaque vetting of COVID-19 vaccines
April 21, 2021 - For months, very little was known about the deliberations of the state task force empowered to judge the safety of COVID-19 vaccines before they're administered to New Yorkers. But Bill Hammond, senior fellow for
