In collaboration, with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, GNYHA is sharing a daily syndromic surveillance report that compares median visits for COVID-19-like illness for the most recent three-day period against the same type of visits for the previous two-week period. The report includes data at the City, borough, and facility...

Yesterday’s GNYHA/1199SEIU Healthcare Education Project rally in Albany for more Medicaid funding for New York’s hospitals and nursing homes was an enormous success. The massive show of force featured 15,000 spirited 1199SEIU workers who marched around the Capitol and filled the MVP Arena to capacity. It also included the strong commitment of legislative leaders who...

GNYHA has submitted a letter to the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) in response to a request for input on health workforce challenges and potential solutions. The request for input followed a February 16 HELP Committee hearing examining the country’s current health workforce challenges. GNYHA’s letter recommended that Congress address...

The New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) recently updated its Compliance Library to add guidance relating to the compliance program regulations that it adopted on December 28, 2022, for providers and Medicaid Managed Care Organizations. Among the items that are available in the Compliance Library are OMIG’s Compliance Program Review Module...

The New York State Assembly and Senate have responded to Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposed State fiscal year 2023-24 budget proposal with their “one-house budgets.” To help you better understand them and GNYHA’s positions, we have developed the attached table. The Legislature’s one-house budgets reflect several of GNYHA’s advocacy priorities, including a 10% Medicaid rate increase...

GNYHA’s Quality and Clinical Initiatives team recognized Patient Safety Awareness Week by highlighting its quality and patient safety programming and initiatives to help member efforts to promote and enhance the quality of care for all patients. All GNYHA performance improvement resources can be found on GNYHA’s website. Maternal Health GNYHA’s Maternal Health Learning Series is...

The monthly results of GNYHA’s Utilization Survey through December 2022 are now available on the online portal. The reports include hospital-specific and aggregate results for the January 2020-December 2022 period. The monthly data grid provides charts and data tables comparing each facility to all 81 respondents. The individual measure reports compare hospital results to respondents...

GNYHA’s second forum in its Advancing Maternal Health and Well-Being Learning Series featured presentations on maternal mental health equity and care, hospital-integrated doula support, and innovations in postpartum care. GNYHA Senior Director Kendall LaSane began the meeting with relevant Federal and State updates. On the Federal front, Mr. LaSane reported that President Joe Biden’s fiscal...

In its March report to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended increasing 2024 hospital Medicare payments by 3.9% and overhauling supplemental payments to safety net hospitals. The report examined hospital payment adequacy by assessing beneficiaries’ access to care, quality of care, providers’ access to capital and Medicare payments, and providers’ costs in 2021....