It's Your Money NYC: Hold Your Government Accountable

Funding for '09

$ 183,089,000

Employees

Who funds this program?

City

157,108,000 (29%)

State

24,082,000 (13%)

Federal

1,900,000 (1%)

How is the money spent?

Salaries

20,090,000 (11%)

Supplies

1,319,000 (Less than 1%)

Property & Equipment

62,000 (Less than 1%)

Contracted Services

134,314,000 (73%)

Other and Fixed Charges

27,306,000 (15%)

What your money funds:

This program funds the Division of Health Care Access and Improvement, which is tasked with promoting the availability of quality health care services to New Yorkers, including:

1. Insurance Access: Medicaid managed care is administered and monitored under this division. This includes making contracts with managed care plans, assessing the plans' performance and enforcing the terms and conditions of these contracts. In FY06, 1.5 million New Yorkers wre registered with Medicaid managed care.
2. Oral Health Access: Oral Health Clinics throughout the city that provide free dental care for children and adolescents that do not have dental insurance.
3. Primary Care Improvement Unit: Includes a program that uses data to monitor health status of outpatients from the HHC,
4. Correctional Health Services: Provides medical and mental health care to inmates and detainees in the City's correctional facilities. The program offers health care and disease prevention counseling to inmates before they are released.
1. In FY08, there were approximately 900,000 inmate intake and primary care visits conducted by the Department.
2. In FY06, there were approximately 222,000 mental health visits by inmates.
3. Also in FY06, 70% of inmates were treated for chlamydia before discharged.