Health Insurance Information For Consumers
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The Health Insurance Resource Center is designed to help consumers make informed decisions when purchasing health insurance for themselves and their families.
The center provides basic information on various types of health insurance plans available, and up to date information to evaluate and compare various health insurance options and companies. We've also included links to other websites that provide relevant information to help consumers make informed and reasoned decisions.
The New York Consumer Guide to Health Insurers contains a ranking of HMOs and health insurers based on complaint statistics and enrollee satisfaction surveys and includes information on the number of successful appeals to independent external review agents. These appeals result from decisions to deny benefits based on medical necessity grounds or classification of procedures as experimental or investigational.
Please feel free to explore the Health Insurance Resource Center and to make comments or suggestions. We hope that the information provided will assist you in your efforts to learn about the health insurance market place in New York State.
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- General Information
- Healthy New York
- Long Term Care
- Medicaid and Medicare Information
- Other Health Resources
General Information
- New! 2011 New York Consumer Guide to Health Insurers
- Federal Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC)
- Health Care Reform
- High Risk Pool
- "Age 29" Dependent Coverage Extension
- COBRA and Premium Assistance Information Index
- Consumer Rights
- External Appeals
- Filing a Complaint
- Health Care Provider Rights
- Health Insurance Programs in New York State
- Health News Releases
- Insurance Help for the Seriously ill and Their Caregivers
- Partnership for Coverage Report: Achieving Quality, Affordable Health Insurance for All New Yorkers
- Standardized Individual Health Plans (HMO) (Includes premium rates - updated monthly)
- Guía del Consumidor Sobre la Compra de Seguro Médico (Formato de PDF)
Healthy New York
Long Term Care
- Basics of Long Term Care Insurance
- Sample Annual Premiums for Long Term Care Insurance:
- Federal Employee and Retiree Long Term Care Plan (external link)
- NYS Partnership for Long Term Care (external link)
- NYS Public Employee and Retiree Long Term Care Insurance Plan (external link)
Medicaid and Medicare Information
- 2012 Medicare and You guide (Link to CMS Web site; includes descriptions of Medigap plans A thru L)
- Information for Medicare Beneficiaries (Medicare Supplement Premiums & Medigap Info)
- Medicare Consumer Publications (Link to CMS Web site)
Other Health Resources
- Child Health Plus
- Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage program (EPIC)
- Empire Conversion Opinion and Decision (PDF Format - October 8, 2002)
- FAIR Health
A website that enables consumers to estimate and plan their medical and dental expenditures and access educational articles and videos about the healthcare insurance reimbursement system. - Family Health Plus
- Health Insurance Information, Counseling and Assistance (HIICAP) (Office for the Aging)
- NYS Department of Health
Updated 05/14/2012


