Katelyn Cordero

1 week ago | politico.com | Katelyn Cordero |Maya Kaufman

Members of the nation’s largest health care union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, are confronting questions about where their monthly dues money is going. The organization is facing inner turmoil after a nine-month POLITICO investigation found that 1199SEIU President George Gresham has for years used the politically influential union’s funds to benefit himself, his family and political allies.

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Katelyn Cordero

A federal judge is giving the state and consumers in the state’s consumer-directed personal assistance program two more days to negotiate the terms of a preliminary injunction that would delay parts of the program’s transition to a new administrative system, POLITICO Pro reports. Judge Frederic Block told the state and attorneys representing the consumers that he plans to implement a preliminary injunction.

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Katelyn Cordero

Organ donor advocates in New York are looking to repeal a 35-year-old ban that prevents New Yorkers in need of an organ transplant from enlisting at multiple transplant centers in the state. Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes — who’s late daughter was a transplant recipient — is gearing up to introduce the Helping Equal Access to Registrations for Transplants (HEART) Act this legislative session.

1 month ago | politico.com | Katelyn Cordero |Maya Kaufman

Participants who fail to complete registration for New York’s consumer-directed personal assistance program will have an extra month to enroll, but the state is warning this is not a delay, POLITICO reported first. Consumers who have failed to complete registration for the Medicaid program known as CDPAP by April 1 will be allowed to continue their services and workers until April 30.

1 month ago | politico.com | Maya Kaufman |Katelyn Cordero

A new tax on managed care organizations is expected to net $3.7 billion over the next two years for Medicaid, and health care industry stakeholders all have different ideas for how the state should use it. SOMOS Community Care, a Bronx-based physician network, will bring hundreds of primary care doctors to Albany this week to push its proposal: a $300 million independent physician investment fund.