This GNYHA-developed resource contains enrollment figures across the following plan types: Medicare Advantage, Child Health Plus, Health & Recovery Plans (HARP), Medicaid Managed Care including HARP, Managed Long Term Care (MLTC), Medicaid Advantage, and HIV/SNP. The data is aggregated and compiled from the Department of Health and values are calculated on a rolling monthly and...

GNYHA has developed Social Care for All Needs Medical Education (SCAN ME) Academy, a set of e-learning modules for residents and medical students. SCAN ME Academy aims to ensure that the future physician workforce understands social determinants of health and health-related social needs and their potential impact on patients’ health outcomes. Each of the six...

GNYHA’s Tracker captures AI-related legislative and regulatory activities, as well as major policy developments that may be of interest to hospitals. This resource is organized by national, New York State, and New York City efforts. It will be updated quarterly. Last update: December 15, 2025.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed a GNYHA-supported workplace violence prevention bill (A.203B/S.5294B) into law. The new law includes provisions collectively proposed by GNYHA, the New York American College of Emergency Physicians, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, and the New York State Nurses Association. I am grateful to the Governor for recognizing the bill’s...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced today that the New York State Department of Health and Dormitory Authority of the State of New York awarded more than $300 million in Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program (STP) IV and V funding to 22 health information technology (HIT) and cybersecurity projects and initiatives statewide. Awards and...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an interim final rule with comment period (IFC) that repeals the minimum staffing provisions of the Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting final rule. CMS published the IFC on December 2, and it will go into effect on February...

The attached table summarizes bills of interest to GNYHA members from the 2025 legislative session, which ended on June 18.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the Medicare end-stage renal disease (ESRD) prospective payment system (PPS) final rule for calendar year (CY) 2026. CMS finalized updates to the ESRD PPS rates, the acute kidney injury (AKI) dialysis payment rate, the ESRD Quality Incentive Program (QIP), and terminated the ESRD Treatment Choices...

GNYHA recently submitted the attached comments in response to the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Request for Information (RFI) on approaches to measuring and evaluating the performance of AI-enabled medical devices. The RFI requested feedback on methods to detect, assess, and mitigate performance changes over time. The FDA’s stated goal is to help ensure...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the Medicare end-stage renal disease (ESRD) prospective payment system (PPS) final rule for calendar year (CY) 2026. CMS finalized updates to the ESRD PPS rates, the acute kidney injury (AKI) dialysis payment rate, the ESRD Quality Incentive Program (QIP), and terminated the ESRD Treatment Choices...