News & Events > A New Era in Medicaid: Federal Reform and Fiscal Uncertainty

Presentations from this conference are available.

Medicaid stands on the brink of historic opportunities and unprecedented challenges as two powerful forces—federal health care reform and the state’s budget crisis—converge to change the playing field.

This conference will examine this new environment and its impact on New York’s Medicaid program. The morning sessions will consider the significance of national health care reform at the federal and state levels, examine the federal government’s unfolding approach to implementing this complex and far-reaching law, review the dramatic changes in New York’s Medicaid program over the past decade, and focus on the program’s current priorities and challenges. In the afternoon, a close look at the state’s immediate budget challenges will precede a panel discussion by four senior leaders with both regulatory and service delivery expertise on how Medicaid payment reform can best strike a balance among containing costs, ensuring access, and redesigning service delivery.

Speakers will include James R. Tallon, Jr., president of the United Hospital Fund; Rima Cohen, counselor for health policy to the Secretary of Health and Human Services; Donna Frescatore, New York State Medicaid director; Michael Birnbaum, director of policy for the Fund’s Medicaid Institute; Steven Anderman, chief operating officer and senior vice president of operations for
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center Health System; Deborah Bachrach, president of Bachrach Health Strategies; Jo-Ann Costantino, chief executive officer of The Eddy and executive vice president of Northeast Health; and Dennis Whalen, executive vice president of the Healthcare Association of New York State.

For a schedule of the complete agenda or for the form to register by fax or mail, please see the flyer below.