CM Narcisse on H&H role with Office of Healthcare Accountability

The Office of Healthcare Accountability, the office of, was established in June 2024 through the Healthcare Accountability and Consumer Protection Act, Local Law 78.

This is a legislation that Speaker Menin was proud to spearhead while serving as chair of the Committee on Consumer and Workers'Protection.

The office was created to examine health care costs across New York City, improve

transparency in health care, pricing and spending, and identify strategies to reduce costs for patients and the health care system overall.

Is H&H doing any work with this office?

If so, what role is H&H playing in improving transparency in their course for care?

We provide data to the office on all our

costs and that's where you can learn that health and hospitals often provides the same

care but for a third of the price because we are a public system that devotes ourselves to services and not to other things.

Giving ongoing reimbursement rate.

We talk about it.

You're very good at it.

You master the billing.

Okay.

Giving ongoing reimbursement rate negotiations between New York Presbyterian and Emblem Health.

What role has H&H and the Office of Healthcare Accountability played in assessing the impact of provider reimbursement rate on the city healthcare course?

If that have delays in reaching an agreement affected the city's anticipating health plan saving.

If so, by how much?

We have not been involved in those negotiations.

Those are all done by OLR.

Okay, there's many questions, but I'm trying to wrap it up, I mean, as fast as I can.

Some interesting one I had to ask.

Saving in the executive plan.

The executive plan includes saving of 14.1 million, starting in fiscal 2026, and baseline to reach 27 million by fiscal 2028.

We were told that the savings will be achieved by reducing reliance.

You had to.

Sorry.

My chair just took that one.

I'm going to go to the next.

I was repeating because I was minding my business, I guess.

I was talking.

All right.

Did you do the federal one?

I don't hear the federal one.

Okay, the federal restriction on Medicaid.

You did my question, Nene.

Let me see.

The federal...

So we have a conflict here.

Apparently somebody was not paying attention.

It was probably me.

All right.

Cheer.

Or the finish.

I'm the one that's not paying attention.

Sorry, Dr.

Katz.

All good.

All good.

You did this one.

You did that one.

You did the mental health.

You mixed my questions with yours.

We have a few questions that we are interested.

A few questions she's interested.

So I don't want you to repeat things.

Just give me a second.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay, so let's move on because I have some questions in there on the side too.