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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...

GME Data Brief: Academic Year 2026 Resident Placement

The Spring 2026 GME Data Brief examines the results of the National Resident Matching Program’s (NRMP) Main Residency Match (Match) for academic year (AY) 2026 (from July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2027). The Match—the largest residency matching system in the US—places thousands of medical school seniors and graduates into US residency positions each year....

Summary Table of the 2026 New York Legislative Session

This table summarizes bills of interest to GNYHA members and their status at the June 5 conclusion of the 2026 New York State legislative session. More information on the 2026 legislative session can be found in ML-70, and GNYHA’s position memos for many of the bills in the summary table can be found here. The...

Perspectives Podcast: Is this Measles? Keeping Clinicians Ready

In the latest episode of GNYHA’s Perspectives podcast, GNYHA’s Anne Liston Sullivan, RN, Associate Vice President, Quality and Clinical Initiatives, sits down with infection prevention experts Priya Dhagat, MS, MLS(ASCP) CM, CIC, CHEP, of NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, and Alison Bradbury, MSN, RN, CIC, of NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County for a timely conversation about...

GNYHA Responds to 340B Rebate Model Information Request

GNYHA submitted comments to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in response to its information collection request (ICR) on how a 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program could burden covered entities and manufacturers. The ICR is HRSA’s most recent step toward implementing a 340B Rebate Model Pilot. As in our April 2026 comment letter, we...

Health Care Transparency Bills Advance

A flurry of committee activity this summer put price transparency at the center of the health care debate on Capitol Hill. A summary of recent relevant bills considered by each committee of jurisdiction follows. House Ways and Means Committee The House Ways and Means Committee advanced a slate of health care-related bills in a July...

Links for DOH MAID Law Webinars

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) will host a series of informational webinars for facilities and practitioners that may be involved in providing services under the State’s Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) law. The law is set to go into effect on August 5, 2026. DOH has provided us with the following corrected...

CMS Implements Risk-Based Survey Process Nationwide

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that it will implement its risk-based survey (RBS) process for high-performing skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) nationwide effective September 8, 2026. CMS estimates that the RBS process will take about half as long as the existing long-term care survey process (LTCSP), which has been CMS’s primary...

GNYHA Comments on Medicaid Managed Care State Directed Payment and Medicaid Fee-for-Service Targeted Practitioner Payments Proposed Rule

GNYHA has submitted the attached comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Medicaid Managed Care State Directed Payment (SDP) and Medicaid Fee-for-Service (FFS) Targeted Practitioner Payments Proposed Rule. Our comments, summarized below, address CMS’s various proposals to implement HR 1’s SDP provisions and its proposals that go beyond HR 1 implementation, such...

Hospital-Specific Impacts of 340B, Site-Neutral Provisions of OPPS Proposed Rule

Today, we shared with your Chief Financial Officers (CFO) and key finance staff GNYHA’s estimated hospital-level impacts of the below key provisions of the Calendar Year (CY) 2027 Medicare outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) proposed rule. For hospitals that are part of a health system, we shared these reports with the system CFO. We hope...

EPCC MCI Recovery Series: NTSB Hospital Coordination and HIPAA Considerations

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule Includes Major Changes to Physician Payment, Quality Reporting, and Primary Care

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the calendar year (CY) 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule, which would take effect January 1, 2027. The proposed rule includes several payment reforms affecting 1) the valuation of physician services and 2) policies designed to increase participation in accountable care organizations (ACOs)....