Health Statistics Folder 0067, 2000-2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Partner With Enrollers — Share the Responsibility

Again, enrolling people in public health insurance is not easy. Talk to our office about partnering with enrollers. They have the needed marketing expertise and their involvement will help reduce your workload.

NYCHA is just beginning a pilot program with several healthplans in several of their housing developments where the healthplans will be responsible for conducting the necessary outreach to residents. This will lessen the staff burden for NYCHA.

Partner with Other City Agencies

Agencies have found it helpful to pair up with one or more agencies with complementary strengths. This is occurring at the central level as well as at the local level.

Examples of cooperation at the central level include: The Board of Education and the Department of Health school health program have joined forces to refer school children Corrections are working for health insurance. The Police Department and Department of together on upcoming enrollment events. through our We have tried to encourage these partnerships in local communities recently begun in Elmhurst, Washington interagency neighborhood projects which have agencies are working with Heights and the South Bronx. In these projects, multiple city healthplans and community-based organizations to implement significant enrollment initiatives in those communities. You may want to focus on a handful of your local can HealthStat champions and encourage them to reach out to other agencies. Our office help facilitate those local collaborations. by the One exciting possibility is the School Incentive program recently announced which Mayor in his State of the City address. This program will give $25,000 to a school and $50,000 for a school that enrolls 70% of their eligible students into health insurance one or more enrolls 100% of their eligible students. Your agency may want to "adopt" schools to help them earn this bonus.

Be As Targeted As Possible their program Several agencies have been able to do successful data matches of For population with Medicaid enrollment information to help target their efforts. database of public housing residents with example, NYCHA has been able to match their eligible but Medicaid enrollment to determine those residents who appear to be school lunch unenrolled. The Board of Education has done a similar match with its program participants for possible data program. Your agency should consider its lists of largest potential. matches and targeting of potential enrollees or agency sites with the

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