CM Narcisse on essential plan eligibility loss and uncompensated care
Narcisse asks about essential plan eligibility loss impact. Olberg estimates 50-60,000 H&H patients affected, with disproportionate share hospital funding covering about 50% of uncompensated care costs. Katz emphasizes H&H will continue serving all patients regardless of insurance.
Based on your testimony, roughly about 450,000 New Yorkers losing their essential plan eligibility by July 1st.
How many are current H&H patients and what is the projected
uncompensated care increase.
Yeah, it's, you know, we're talking about the, we call them, you know, EP5 group.
It's the group of about 425, 450,000 people statewide that are in the process of losing their coverage.
For us, that number is about 50 to 60,000 people.
I think in state, New York City-wide is somewhere around 200,000.
So it is pretty devastating.
But we are prepared to still, obviously, still serve those individuals.
And we will use disproportionate share of funding as the vehicle to pay for their services.
Thank you.
We would tell them all.
Continue to come for care.
We're here for you whether you have insurance or don't have insurance.
Thank you.