The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee last week considered S. 2840, the Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act, a health care workforce bill sponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) that would expand access to primary care. The $26 billion bill passed the full committee with a 14-7...

House leadership last week scheduled a vote to consider a comprehensive health care transparency bill, H.R. 5378, the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act. The bill draws substantially from the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s PATIENT Act and incorporates provisions from the Health Care Price Transparency Act and the Transparency in Billing Act. GNYHA’s comments on...

The monthslong appropriations stalemate between the House and Senate will culminate this weekend, with only a few days left in FY 2023. House Republicans and Senate Democrats drafted FY 2024 funding bills at contrasting levels over the summer and have yet to reach a compromise. The impasse is largely due to House Republicans’ refusal to...

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) will release CINERGY Collaborative payments for both State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2023 (April 1, 2022 – March 31, 2023) (Federal share) and SFY 2024 (April 1, 2023 – March 31, 2024) (State share) in Medicaid check cycle 2405, with a check release date of October 11. With...

House Leadership Pulls Bill with Hospital Site-Neutral Cut from Calendar House leadership last week scheduled a vote to consider a comprehensive health care transparency bill, H.R. 5378, the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act. The legislation draws substantially from the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s PATIENT Act and incorporates provisions from the Health Care Price Transparency...

Congress must pass a spending bill for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2024 or a short-term continuing resolution (CR) by September 30 to avert a Federal Government shutdown. Unfortunately, given the failure to advance House appropriations bills over the last several weeks, it appears increasingly likely that a shutdown will occur. While GNYHA member hospitals will...