The Adjunct Project » Health Insurance http://cunyadjunctproject.org Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:36:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 NYSHIP Navigation Workshop http://cunyadjunctproject.org/2011/12/01/nyship-navigation-workshop/ http://cunyadjunctproject.org/2011/12/01/nyship-navigation-workshop/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:39:40 +0000 Alyson S. http://cunyadjunctproject.org/?p=490 Hey guys. So I know we’ve been super occupied (haha, pun intended) with other things recently, but there’s going to be this workshop on how to successfully navigate NYSHIP (your health insurance if you’re a doctoral student at the GC) next Thursday 12/8 @ 2pm. I know this sounds boring, but we’re trying to make it useful and exciting–kind of like a “skill share”! It will be a place for people to share the names of providers who have been good for them and who take our insurance, things to ask/say when you make/go to an appointment, situations that you have been able to actually get taken care of with NYSHIP (like, financial things that have been resolved), but also the particular areas that still need improvement. No administrators will be there giving boring presentations; instead students who have a lot of experience with using the insurance will share their . . . → Read More: NYSHIP Navigation Workshop]]> Hey guys. So I know we’ve been super occupied (haha, pun intended) with other things recently, but there’s going to be this workshop on how to successfully navigate NYSHIP (your health insurance if you’re a doctoral student at the GC) next Thursday 12/8 @ 2pm. I know this sounds boring, but we’re trying to make it useful and exciting–kind of like a “skill share”! It will be a place for people to share the names of providers who have been good for them and who take our insurance, things to ask/say when you make/go to an appointment, situations that you have been able to actually get taken care of with NYSHIP (like, financial things that have been resolved), but also the particular areas that still need improvement. No administrators will be there giving boring presentations; instead students who have a lot of experience with using the insurance will share their expertise and field questions!

Please send me any and all ideas you have for how to make this workshop most useful, and also let me know if you’d be willing to participate and share an anecdote or a particular piece of knowledge that you have acquired about navigating NYSIHP. We can also of course talk about how NYSHIP should be changed, and we can strategize about ways to do that if folks are into that.

The workshop will be on Thursday December 8th @ 2pm in Room 5414.

]]> http://cunyadjunctproject.org/2011/12/01/nyship-navigation-workshop/feed/ 0 **next Adjunct Project working mtg this Friday** http://cunyadjunctproject.org/2011/09/20/next-adjunct-project-working-mtg-this-friday-2/ http://cunyadjunctproject.org/2011/09/20/next-adjunct-project-working-mtg-this-friday-2/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:06:28 +0000 adjunctproject http://cunyadjunctproject.org/?p=438 Hi, everyone,

This is a lil’ reminder about the Adjunct Project’s next working mtg: Friday, September 23, 2-4pm Graduate Center room 5414 Free food and drinks, so bring a friend or five. The weather’s changing, so get a rad scarf too. $5 each, or $10 solidarity rate.

Here are some proposed topics to discuss: *report-backs about the PSC trainings last week *Plan our involvement in the Sept. 26 CUNY BoT protest *discuss our involvement in the Oct. 7 Defending Public Higher Ed Conference at the GC *Fall’11/Spring’12 workshop schedule proposal based on your survey responses *Create AP working groups (health care, contract campaign/GC chapter, workshops, media/publicity, etc.) that can hold “break-out” activity sessions for part of each AP mtg, then report back to the group *Establish a semi-regular GC/CUNY outreach tabling schedule *AP website and office need love! Solicit volunteers to help out… *What else do YOU think . . . → Read More: **next Adjunct Project working mtg this Friday**]]>

Hi, everyone,

This is a lil’ reminder about the Adjunct Project’s next working mtg:
Friday, September 23, 2-4pm
Graduate Center room 5414
Free food and drinks, so bring a friend or five.
The weather’s changing, so get a rad scarf too. $5 each, or $10 solidarity rate.

Here are some proposed topics to discuss:
*report-backs about the PSC trainings last week
*Plan our involvement in the Sept. 26 CUNY BoT protest
*discuss our involvement in the Oct. 7 Defending Public Higher Ed Conference at the GC
*Fall’11/Spring’12 workshop schedule proposal based on your survey responses
*Create AP working groups (health care, contract campaign/GC chapter, workshops, media/publicity, etc.) that can hold “break-out” activity sessions for part of each AP mtg, then report back to the group
*Establish a semi-regular GC/CUNY outreach tabling schedule
*AP website and office need love! Solicit volunteers to help out…
*What else do YOU think we should talk about?

Please forward out to friends/colleagues/other lists, and let’s keep the political momentum going—>

on behalf of the AP co-cos,
-Conor

]]> http://cunyadjunctproject.org/2011/09/20/next-adjunct-project-working-mtg-this-friday-2/feed/ 0 The NYSHIP Forum is finally happening! http://cunyadjunctproject.org/2011/04/17/the-nyship-forum-is-finally-happening/ http://cunyadjunctproject.org/2011/04/17/the-nyship-forum-is-finally-happening/#comments Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:15:50 +0000 Alyson S. http://cunyadjunctproject.org/?p=388 A NYSHIP informational program will be presented on Wednesday, April 27th from 3-5pm in the Proshanky Auditorium. The program will highlight changes to the plan in 2011, address the most pertinent issues raised in the recently conducted DSC student health insurance surveys, and take audience questions. The panel will consist of staff from the University Benefits Office (CUNY management), representatives from the DSC and Adjunct Project, and Scott Voorhees from the Student Affairs Office.

I am on the panel along with Kim Libman from the DSC, and we will have a set of formal questions that we will take into the forum to ask the administrators from 80th Street. Please email the Adjunct Project (theadjunctproject@gmail.com) if you have specific issues you would like to see us address.

If you’ve ever had a question about your NYSHIP health insurance, this is the time to get some answers!!! It’s also a good . . . → Read More: The NYSHIP Forum is finally happening!]]> A NYSHIP informational program will be presented on Wednesday, April 27th from 3-5pm in the Proshanky Auditorium. The program will highlight changes to the plan in 2011, address the most pertinent issues raised in the recently conducted DSC student health insurance surveys, and take audience questions. The panel will consist of staff from the University Benefits Office (CUNY management), representatives from the DSC and Adjunct Project, and Scott Voorhees from the Student Affairs Office.

I am on the panel along with Kim Libman from the DSC, and we will have a set of formal questions that we will take into the forum to ask the administrators from 80th Street. Please email the Adjunct Project (theadjunctproject@gmail.com) if you have specific issues you would like to see us address.

If you’ve ever had a question about your NYSHIP health insurance, this is the time to get some answers!!! It’s also a good time to raise concerns (i.e. Why did I get that huge bill for my labwork? Why wasn’t that procedure covered? Why don’t any providers ever know who to bill when they see my insurance card?) in a public setting.

HERE IS A FLYER FOR THE EVENT!

Alyson

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