GME Fundamentals for Hospital Leaders

GME Fundamentals for Hospital Leaders is a resource document that explains the components of a graduate medical education (GME) enterprise and its core function within a teaching hospital. It is intended for teaching hospital leadership who do not work on GME issues day to day but would benefit from learning about some of the structural, operational,...
August 3, 2026
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Community Health Worker Services: A Guide to Complying with Billing Requirements

Community health workers (CHWs), patient navigators (PNs), and peer advocates (peers) typically work in community or ambulatory settings to increase patient access to care by bridging the gap between health and social care services. While some organizations use these job titles interchangeably, others distinguish between them. Expanded labor supply and recent Federal and state policy changes have...
July 15, 2026
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CMS Finalizes Updates to FY 2027 Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Rates

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) prospective payment system (PPS) final rule for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2027, which begins October 1, 2026. The final rule updates the payment rates, revises the outlier payments, and implements the IPF patient assessment instrument (PAI). CMS also finalized changes to...
August 5, 2026
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FY 2027 Final IPF PPS Calculator

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) prospective payment system (PPS) final rule for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2027, which begins October 1, 2026. The final rule updates the payment rates, revises the outlier payments, and implements the IPF patient assessment instrument (PAI). CMS also finalized changes to...
August 5, 2026
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NYS Medical Aid in Dying Toolkit

This toolkit was updated August 5, 2026 to reflect DOH guidance. For forms completed by patients, witnesses, and interpreters, please refer to the Department’s website. For contact information of outside organizations that maintain information, including referral lists of providers and pharmacists willing to participate in MAID, please refer to this resource. GNYHA’s toolkit, which is...
August 5, 2026
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DOH Announces Enhanced Medicaid Provider Enrollment and Revalidation Process; Will Host Webinar Reviewing Improved Process

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) has announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has approved its plan to implement an improved Medicaid provider enrollment and revalidation process. Yesterday’s press release follows New York State Medicaid Director Amir Bassiri’s announcement last week that DOH is imposing a six-month moratorium on new...
August 5, 2026
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DOH Adopts Emergency Regulations for MAID Reporting

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) has adopted emergency regulations for Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) reporting requirements. The MAID law establishes a process by which certain qualified individuals may request a prescription from an attending physician for medication to end their life. The law will take effect tomorrow, August 5. The reporting...
August 4, 2026
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GNYHA Comments on Medicaid Community Engagement Requirement IFR

GNYHA submitted the attached comments in response to the interim final rule (IFR), Medicaid Program; Community Engagement Requirement for Certain Individuals, which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued on June 1, 2026. The IFR implements HR 1’s mandate that, effective January 1, 2027, adults aged 19-64 in the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid...
August 4, 2026
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Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule for 2027

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the calendar year (CY) 2027 Medicare outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system proposed rule. CMS is proposing to reduce payments for 340B drugs based on the results of its recent hospital drug acquisition cost survey, shorten the recoupment timeframe...
August 4, 2026
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CY 2027 OPPS Proposed Rule Hospital-Level Impacts

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the calendar year (CY) 2027 Medicare outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and ambulatory surgical center payment system proposed rule. This tool provides a summary of CMS’s estimated hospital-level impacts (all provisions).
August 4, 2026
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CMS Releases FY 2027 SNF PPS Final Rule

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the fiscal year (FY) 2027 skilled nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system (PPS) final rule. Under the rule, CMS will increase rates on October 1 by 2.4%, or about $883 million. CMS also finalized programmatic changes to the SNF quality reporting program (QRP), including removing...
August 3, 2026
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DOH Seeks Hospital Temporary Staffing Information

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) is seeking information from hospitals on how temporary health care staff are utilized. DOH’s Hospital Utilization of Temporary Health Care Workers survey is located in the Health Commerce System under the Survey Management and Response Tool section. The survey is not mandatory. DOH would appreciate hospitals that...
August 3, 2026
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