Governor Cuomo’s call for municipal governments to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from their annual Medicaid spending to help balance the state’s budget has local officials looking for ways to reduce costs while improving patient outcomes.
City Council Member Carlina Rivera, who chairs the Council’s Committee on Hospitals, believes she has identified a strategy that will also address a national mortality crisis that is most pronounced when it comes to mothers and newborns of color.
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