Health exchange officials said the state's uninsured rate is now at a low — 4.7 percent, compared to 10 percent in 2013 when the state's marketplace, NY State Of Health, first opened.
Not exact matches
Administration
officials say more than 476,000
health insurance applications have been filed through federal and state
exchanges.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, along with the Department of
Health Canada and the Consumer Protection Federal Agency of the United Mexican States (PROFECO) have signed a memorandum of understanding that
officials say will result in better regulatory cooperation and
exchanges of information across borders.
Seminerio pleaded guilty in June 2009 to taking more than $ 300,000 from Jamaica Hospital administrators in
exchange for approaching state
health officials to promote their interests.
Insurance executives said they were shocked last week when state
health officials reversed course and discussed requiring insurers to offer out - of - network coverage for all
exchange plans.
Talks are also still ongoing as whether to include a statewide
health exchange in the budget and a controversial provision — sought by the teachers» unions — to forbid school
officials from making teacher evaluations public.
Cuomo's budget also settles another question posed by some Republican lawmakers and
health insurance industry
officials in recent months: how exactly the state would pay for the continued operations of its
health insurance
exchange, which must become self - sustaining this year, but hasn't yet generated enough revenue to fund its roughly $ 150 million in annual operating costs.
Agarwal says «fulfilling the mission» broadly would mean information from Zika diagnoses, for example, is flowing to the right public
health official whether it's from patient - hospital encounters stored in a state
health information
exchange or a primary care setting when a patient presents for treatment or even when such cases are documented at a public
health care service location.
No: If you want
health insurance now, and you want to buy it from your
official health insurance marketplace (either a state or federal
exchange), you have to qualify for a Special Enrollment Period.
Many state
health officials said the threat made insurance companies skittish about offering plans on the
exchange.