NYC EMPLOYEE HEALTH INSURANCE

You can access links and information to all basic health insurance providers by going to the website of the NYC Office of Labor Relations.

NYC HEALTH CARE

NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

NYC 911 Benefits Program for Mental Health and Substance Use Services

NEW YORK STATE HEALTH CARE

NY State Department of Health

NY State Office For The Aging
Health Insurance Information, Counseling and Assistance

NY State Dept of Insurance

FEDERAL HEALTH CARE

Department of Health and Human Services
Multiple Links to Federal Agencies and General Health Information

Department of Labor
Rules and regulations on COBRA, HIPAA, ARRA and other policies and programs

MEDICARE

My Medicare
Medicare's free, secure online service for accessing your Medicare information. As a registered user of MyMedicare.gov, you will have access to personalized information regarding your Medicare benefits and services.

Medicare Rights Center
Provides Medicare advocacy through its Consumer Hotline, 800-333-4114, and counseling to individuals who need answers to Medicare-related questions or help getting care. Hotline counselors are available Monday through Friday, 9AM - 6PM.

GENERAL HEALTH CARE

Health Affairs: The Policy Journal of Health Sphere

Dental Procedures Explained

LONG TERM CARE
New York State Insurance Department, Basics
of Long Term Care Insurance

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
National Clearinghouse for Long Term Care

DRUGS

Health Square Guide to Prescription Drugs

MEDCO

HEALTH CARE POLICY

Kaiser Family Foundation: Health Reform
Resource and reference guide for the latest
information on health care policy and reform proposals

Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
The goals of the Center for Retirement Research are to promote research on retirement issues, to transmit new findings to the policy community and the public, to help train new scholars, and to broaden access to valuable data sources.

Georgetown University Health Policy Institute
The Health Policy Institute is a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and staff dedicated to conducting research on key issues in health policy and health services research.

Health Care Policy/ Harvard Medical Schools
Research on today’s critical health care policy issues

MEDICAL ADVICE

Harvard Medical School

NOAH, New York Online Access to Health

Medline Plus  

Web MD

Eyes Over 40
How Aging Affects Vision