July 28, 2025
We just received this. The Webinar is TODAY (MONDAY) at 1:30. Unclear if it will be recorded but if so, I will grab it for all.
Explainer: The Medicaid and Marketplace Provisions of the Budget Reconciliation Bill
Posted July 24, 2025 by CHIR Faculty
The Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) and Center for Children and Families (CCF) teamed up to publish an explainer on the Medicaid, CHIP, and Marketplace provisions included in the Congressional Republican budget reconciliation bill that was signed into law on July 4.
The budget reconciliation law includes numerous provisions impacting health coverage. It makes deep and damaging cuts that will wreak havoc on state budgets, stress health systems and likely lead to 15 million more uninsured people.
Report authors Sabrina Corlette (CHIR) and Edwin Park (CCF) will explain the new law and answer your questions during a webinar on Monday at 1:30 ET. Register here.
The webinar is free and open to the press.
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Just in from OMH
From: omh.sm.PublicInformation <PublicInformation@omh.ny.gov>
Date: Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Subject: Updated Guidance on Involuntary Removals and Admissions
In May 2025, the State Budget included changes to Involuntary Commitment and Involuntary Removal laws. The law was clarified to include:
“3. a substantial risk of physical harm to the person due to an inability or refusal, as a result of their mental illness, to provide for their own essential needs such as food, clothing necessary medical care, personal safety, or shelter”
as a reason someone could be involuntarily hospitalized or brought to emergency services for an evaluation.
The New York State Office of Mental Health has updated prior guidance to include this and other changes to the Mental Hygiene Law. Please see the document at: https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/guidance/interpretative-guidance-involuntary-emergency-admissions.pdf.
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44 Holland Ave., Albany, NY 12229
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