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...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed legislation that codifies existing hospital language assistance regulations found in New York Codes, Rules and Regulations, Section 405.7. Hospitals have been subject to these requirements since they went into effect in 2006. New York State Assembly Member Nily Rozic (D-Queens) and State Senator John C. Liu (D-Queens) sponsored...

This GNYHA resource compiles translated public-facing documents housed on the New York State Department of Health (DOH) website. The documents are not posted in one place on the DOH website, making them difficult to find. GNYHA created this “one-stop shop” of translated documents for member use. Under New York State’s language access policy, DOH is...

In the calendar year (CY) 2026 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) final rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it will conduct a survey of hospitals’ acquisition costs of separately payable drugs under the OPPS from January 1–March 31, 2026. CMS intends to use the survey results, possibly in combination with...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has once again vetoed a bill (A.6063/S.4423, Lunsford/Hoylman-Sigal) that would have significantly expanded New York’s wrongful death law. GNYHA strongly opposed the bill and thanks the Governor for her continued recognition of the severe harm it would cause for hospitals and other stakeholders. For the fourth consecutive year, the Legislature...