On September 5, GNYHA and LegalHealth, a division of the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG), will host a webinar on changes to a Federal immigration rule affecting the ability of certain individuals to change their immigration status based on whether they have received certain public benefits, including Medicaid. The Department of Homeland Security recently…

On September 5, GNYHA will host a quarterly meeting of the Language Assistance Coordinators Forum.  Linda Colon, Regional Manager of the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Region II, which includes New York and New Jersey, will be our guest speaker. Ms. Colon will introduce the office to new…

On September 6, GNYHA will host a program on providing effective feedback to residents as part of an ongoing Faculty Development Series. The program will feature Rachel Levine, MD, Associate Dean for Faculty Educational Development, and Leah Wolfe, MD, co-director of the Faculty Development Program, both of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Dr. Levine and Dr. Wolfe…

GNYHA developed a summary of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed hospital price transparency requirements. Under CMS’s proposal, hospitals would be required to post online their standard charges and negotiated private payer rates for all chargemaster items and services, all service bundles (e.g., diagnosis-related groups and ambulatory payment groups), and 300 “shoppable”…

GNYHA will host a September 13 conference call on the upcoming 2019 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which will take place September 17 to September 30. The conference call, for New York City hospitals, will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and will feature Special Agent Matthew Maguire with the US Department of…

The HIT Forum provides members with updates on State and Federal health information technology (HIT) and health information exchange issues, as well as information on upcoming GNYHA programming. GNYHA strives to apprise members of pertinent HIT and health information exchange issues, and HIT’s role in supporting quality improvement, patient safety, and care coordination efforts. Members…

The next Finance & Reimbursement Committee Meeting will be held on September 17. You can attend in person or participate via webinar.

On September 18, GNYHA will host a webinar on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data collection best practices. The webinar will feature a presentation by Alex S. Keuroghlian, MD, MPH, Director of Education and Training Programs at the Fenway Institute, a not-for-profit organization focused on ensuring access to quality, culturally competent health care for…

On September 23, GNYHA will host a briefing on best practices for serving patients who are hard-of-hearing and deaf. Presentations by hard-of-hearing and deaf advocates will provide information about the demographics of this population and highlight auxiliary aids and services that best serve these patients. Linda C. Colón, Region II Manger of the US Department…

We are pleased to welcome Mark Barnes and David Peloquin from Ropes & Gray for a briefing on hot topics in clinical research, including conflicts of interest, foreign influence in research, and the impact of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. Both Mr. Barnes and Mr. Peloquin have extensive experience in advising academic medical…

On September 25, GNYHA will host a briefing on Census 2020 and how hospitals can participate in community and staff engagement activities to help obtain a complete count. The briefing will feature representatives from the Association for a Better New York (ABNY), which is partnering with GNYHA to assist hospitals on community and staff engagement…

On September 27, GNYHA will hold a webinar to review the feedback from the New York State Department of Health (DOH) on previous hospital Community Service Plan (CSP) submissions, and to help hospitals use that feedback to design the implementation portion of their 2019 comprehensive CSP submissions, which are due to DOH at the end…