Health Affairs Features New York State Health Foundation's Cost Containment Efforts

Sustaining the insurance coverage expansion made possible by Federal health care reform will require containing health care costs. While philanthropy alone cannot resolve this issue, it has an obligation to take on seemingly intractable problems. On July 7, 2010, Health Affairs published an article coauthored by NYSHealth Senior Vice President David Sandman, “A Philanthropy Tackles Growth in Health Costs at the State Level.” It describes NYSHealth’s recent support of efforts related to payment reform, hospital readmissions, medical malpractice reform, palliative care, and the quantification of other cost containment approaches that could be pursued at the state level. NYSHealth is committed to stimulating innovative and replicable approaches to bending the cost curve.

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