Many health care firms looking to erect new medical facilities face a fat tax hike under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s $178-billion budget plan. The proposal will slap health care providers with a new 3 percent surcharge — on top of the current .55 percent fee — to win Albany’s OK to construct new hospital facilities, nursing homes, diagnostic treatment centers, ambulatory surgery centers and other clinics
City Hall is bracing itself for a cash grab from state officials looking to plug a $6.1 billion budget gap and Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget presentation Tuesday did little to dispel fears of a fiscal blow to the city’s spending plan.
A highly publicized approach to lowering health costs failed to pass rigorous study this month, but hospitals, insurers and government health programs don't intend to give up on the idea. It just needs to be modified, they say.
In the autumn of 2012, Ricardo Gonzalez Jurado was 25 feet off the ground, balancing on metal scaffolding as he sawed a stack of wood. Gonzalez Jurado owns a Central Texas yoga retreat—an oasis deep in the woods where he’s built a cluster of small houses for customers seeking a few days of bodily and spiritual cleansing.
Just about every Medicare beneficiary has heard about the donut hole in a Medicare Part D drug plan. Many will admit they don’t understand it but they all know it means drugs will cost more.
In the N.Y. State of the Budget Governor Andrew Cuomo said local governments are going to be held more responsible for increased Medicaid costs. He said since the state started paying local shares of the program in 2013, rates have steadily increased. The governor said there are 6 million people on Medicaid in N.Y. but that the state spent $20 billion to cover local government shares. He said it’s good people are in the program but it also has to be financially stable.