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Governor Paterson Names Advisory Committee to Help Health Care Reform Cabinet

Governor David A. Paterson today named 37 organizations to the Health Care Reform Adv...

Applications Being Accepted for Hanna S. Cohn Equal Justice Fellowship

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Empire Justice Joins the NYS Consumer Coalition on Part D to Highlight the Continuing Need for the EPIC and Medicaid Wraps

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Empire Justice Center Testimony at the Executive Budget Hearing on Human Services

Testimony before the Joint Legislative Committees on human services in the 2010-2011 ...

In Sickness and In Debt

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Medicaid Matters

Finding a Better Way: Ten consumer-friendly ideas to improve New York’s Medicaid prog...

Legal Services Journal - Summer 2010 :

Empire Justice Center's quarterly newsletter for advocates. Read More

June 2010 :

The Disability Law News is Empire Justice Center's quarterly newsletter for disability advocates. Read More

Strategies for Maximizing Health Care Services for People with HIV

This training will provide case managers and other client advocates with basic inform...

Articles

The Nuts & Bolts of Hospital Charity Care Rules
August 13, 2009
Charity care refers to free or low cost care provided by hospitals to uninsured or underinsured patients. New York State has provided significant state funding to hospitals for charity care since 1983, but it wasn't until 2007 that hospitals were actually required to provide charity care to uninsured patients under the Hospital Financial Assistance Law (HFAL). Read More

New Protection from Medical Debt
August 1, 2006
New York State took a major step to combat medical debt this session when the Legislature and Governor Pataki agreed upon the terms of comprehensive charity care legislation Read More