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Perspectives Podcast: The Wild Hope of Afya Foundation

GNYHA’s Perspectives podcast takes a deep dive into hospital issues and operations. Each episode examines the perspectives of health care executives while discussing various topics. GNYHA’s Perspectives podcast continues with a deep dive into filling gaps in the global medical supply chain. GNYHA’s Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative and Financial Officer, Lee Perlman, interviews...

October 15, 2024

Fall 2024 Legislative Priorities

GNYHA’s updated Federal legislative agenda for the remainder of calendar year 2024 highlights the numerous challenges your organizations face and includes the following advocacy priorities: Prevent dangerous provider cuts: GNYHA requests that Congress eliminate the $8 billion Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payment cut scheduled for January 1, 2025, and address the recently enacted cut...

September 16, 2024

Advisory Commission on Additional Licensing Models Seeking Comments on Draft Guidance for Internationally Licensed Physicians

The Advisory Commission on Additional Licensing Models recently released draft guidance for state medical boards seeking to develop a path to licensure for physicians who are already licensed and practicing in countries other than the US and Canada. The Commission—a group established by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), the Accreditation Council for GME...

October 21, 2024

Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Announces Nursing Funding Opportunity for Hospitals

The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation (MCHF) recently released a request for proposals for its Nursing Initiative, a program to support hospitals that provide a significant amount of care to high-need populations. Hospitals can use the funding to pursue American Nurses Credentialling Center accreditation through the Magnet Recognition Program or the Pathway to Excellence Program. The...

October 21, 2024

Medicare FY 2025 IPPS Payment Estimator

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) final rule for Federal Fiscal year (FY) 2025, which began October 1, 2024. CMS also published an interim final action with comment period (IFC) on September 30 that rescinded its low wage index policy in response to the...

October 21, 2024

DOH Issues Hospital Financial Assistance Law Guidance

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) has issued the attached guidance to hospitals on changes, effective on Sunday (October 20), to New York’s Hospital Financial Assistance Law (DAL CPSO #2024-01). The guidance includes the Uniform Financial Assistance form that all hospitals are required to use, provides an overview of Financial Assistance Law amendments,...

October 21, 2024

GNYHA Comments on ACGME 2025 Institutional Requirements Proposed Revisions

GNYHA recently submitted comments (attached) on the Accreditation Council for GME’s (ACGME) Institutional Requirements proposed revisions. GNYHA also sent a letter (attached) to ACGME leadership explaining our comments further. ACGME is currently evaluating all feedback and will solicit a second round of comments on a revised version in the next several weeks. Once finalized, these...

October 18, 2024

GNYHA Recommends Criteria for New Residency Programs

In the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Medicare inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed changes to the criteria used to determine if a residency program should be considered new and therefore receive an associated adjustment to its graduate medical education (GME) cap. In the final rule,...

October 17, 2024

Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) Quick Reference Guide

Health Care Workers That Have Returned from Rwanda As per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations, health care workers that have been in Rwanda should be furloughed for 21 days after their last presence in a health care facility in Rwanda Health care workers must contact their local health department (LHD) on return...

October 17, 2024

MedPAC Shares Beneficiary and Provider Focus Group Findings, Discusses Future Direction for Nursing Home Population

At its October meeting, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) shared findings from its annual beneficiary and provider focus groups and examined trends associated with Medicare beneficiaries residing in nursing homes. MedPAC will include both topics in its spring 2025 reports to Congress. The Commission conducted the beneficiary and provider focus group analysis to better...

October 15, 2024

Issue Brief: The Interstate Medical License Compact and New York State Shield Laws

The GNYHA issue brief “The Interstate Medical License Compact and New York State Shield Laws” addresses concerns that certain provisions in the Compact legislation could diminish protections under New York’s “shield” laws, which were enacted to protect reproductive health care providers. The issue brief sets forth GNYHA’s view that while New York’s joining the Compact...

October 15, 2024

Global Budget Transformation Workgroup

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT