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A Legacy of Care
This 15 minute plenary session video produced by HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau first aired during the 2010 Ryan White Grantee Meeting.
Interviewees from New York include:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOGD8dueHeI&feature=youtube_gdata_player/
NewYork-Presbyterian System SelectHealth’s Special Project of National
Significance featured in HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau 2010 Biennial Progress Report
Going the Distance
The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
20 Years of Leadership, A Legacy of Care
This progress report celebrates the legacy of the first responders to the AIDS epidemic, the 1990 passage of the first Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, and the creation of and progress made by the Health Resources and Services HIV/AIDS Bureau. It presents the history of the CARE Act, now renamed Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act, and its components, case studies illustrating the pursuit of excellence throughout the years, successes, and the challenges to come. The report includes the FY08 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Data Summary tables, figures, and references.
See Chapter 3 page 35. Case Study: SelectHealth, NewYork-Presbyterian System
Congratulations to all the New York providers included in
the Report:
Boriken Neighborhood Health Center
Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center AIDS Center
AIDS Service Center
St Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center: The Center for Comprehensive Care
The report is available here:
http://hab.hrsa.gov/data/files/2010progressrpt.pdf
Hard copies are available free from HRSA:
http://ask.hrsa.gov/detail_materials.cfm?ProdID=4456
Ryan White Part C Programs are required to cap charges to patients based on income. I developed a simple excel spreadsheet which can be used for that purpose. It is designed to allow you to input the current federal poverty guidelines and to choose your State. The user then enters the patients family size and annual income. The cap is then calculated. The current upload is for 2009. The federal poverty guidelines are posted every year here and can be used to update the spreadsheet. The 2010 rates will be available March 1, 2010. Upon further review of the Ryan White law it has been determined that family size should not be included in the calculation for caps on charges. A second spreadsheet is included that limits the calculation just to the individual.
CapCalc_Family (family size)
CapCalc_Individual (individual only for Ryan White Grantees)
On Friday evening December 4, 2009 President Obama’s Office of National AIDS Policy hosted a Community Discussion on HIV/AIDS in the Alumni Auditorium of Columbia University. Jeffrey Crowley, ONAP Director served as host and Rosie Perez, Actor and long time HIV/AIDS advocate moderated. While there were some brief introductions and comments by local politicians (Congressman Eliot Engel and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn), the event primarily permitted a steady stream of 90 second statements from anyone attending who choose to wait in two lines to open microphones. I think it went on for about 3 hours.
So how do you insure that all are heard. You have Rosie Perez moderate. She advised the group early on that comments would be limited to 90 seconds and she would gently but firmly enforce that limit. And she did. And everyone complied. You go Rosie! If you think all she can do is act, forget about.
ONAP recorded the entire event and posted it on the White House website. Follow this link to see the video: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/onap/events/newyork
American Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Meeting
November 14-18, 2009
Posters related to NewYork-Presbyterian System SelectHealth‘s Continuity of Care Document (CCD) HRSA Special Projects of National Significance.
AMIA-0021-A2009.R1. Urban PLWH’s Willingness to Share Personal Health Information. P. Teixeira; S. Bakken; E. Camhi; P. Gordon
AMIA-0056-A2009. Barriers and Facilitators to Use of a Continuity of Care
Document (CCD) in HIV/AIDS Care: Persons Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWH) and Health Care Provider Perspectives. D. Wantland; M. Odlum; R. Schnall; P. Teixeira; P. Gordon; E. Camhi; S. Bakken
AMIA-0088-A2009. Cognitive Evaluation of Case Managers’ Use of a Continuity of Care Document for Persons Living with HIV. R. Schnall; D. Kaufman; S. Hyun; S. Bakken
Session Descriptions are now available:
For those attending I am participating in the following presentations:
AF-301
Title Show Me the Program Income?
Workshop Block Workshop A
Track Administration/Fiscal
Date Monday, August 25
Time 11:00am-12:30pm
Location Wilson B
Level Basic
This session is for those grantees with little or no experience in billing third-party payors and for those that are experienced and looking for enhancements. The session will focus on starting or contracting for a
third-party billing system, the importance of the fee schedule and eligibility verification. The discussion will also include how program income is restricted and how it may be expended. Cost-based reimbursement will be discussed including negotiating with third-party insurers and federally qualified health centers (FQHC).
Moderator Sylvia Trent-Adams
Presenters Thomas Hickey
Julia (Lolita) Cervera
Eli Camhi
AF-341
Title Developing and Implementing a User-Friendly Priority Setting Tool
Workshop Block Workshop F
Track Administration/Fiscal
Date Tuesday, August 26
Time 3:30pm-5:00pm
Location Delaware B
Level Intermediate
In 2005, the NYC EMA Planning Council created a task force to develop a priority setting tool. After a thorough review of the published literature, the task force chose to use the grid analysis to assess the service portfolio. This workshop will discuss how the task force was able to provide specific recommendations on funding, service elements, and guidance within service categories based on the results of this analysis.
Moderator Songhai Barclift
Presenters Eli Camhi
Anthony Santella
JoAnn Hilger
See you in Washington!
Eli Camhi
ecamhi@generes.com