WAIVER INTERIM ACCESS ASSURANCE AWARDS POSTED: $250 MILLION TO 7 PUBLIC HOSPITALS; MORE THAN $211 MILLION TO 22 SAFETY NET HOSPITALS

Erie County Medical Center will receive $8,484,000 as part of $250,000,000 awarded to large public hospitals statewide as part of New York State's Health Department Medicaid Waiver Interim Access Assurance Fund awards.
New York City's Health and Hospitals Corporation (HCC) received $152,401,533 while SUNY Upstate is slated to receive $15,000,000 as part of the seven awards made statewide to large public hospitals. Other awardees include Nassau Health Care Corporation, SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, Stony Brook University Hospital in Stony Brook (Long Island), NY and Westchester Medical Center.

Public hospital IAAF awards are posted at http://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/redesign/iaaf/docs/iaaf_awards_large_publics.pdf

Meanwhile, $211,913,057 in awards will be given to 22 designated safety net hospitals through the IAAF program of the state Health Department.  Named safety net hospital awardees include Wyoming County Community Health System ($1,890,498), Cuba Memorial Hospital ($3,347,463) and TLC Health System ($6,656,000). 
The largest safety net hospital awardee named through the IAAF program is Brookdale Hospital, at $53,404,065. 
The full list of safety net awardees can be found here: http://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/redesign/iaaf/docs/iaaf_awards_safety_nets.pdf