GNYHA/1199SEIU Healthcare Education Project Video: The Impact of HR 1 on New Yorkers, Hospitals

The Healthcare Education Project (HEP) showed an important video to elected officials, health care workers, and community leaders last week at the annual SOMOS conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (HEP is a joint initiative of GNYHA and 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East.) The video, which was part of HEP’s “Code Red: The Trauma Facing...

GNYHA has developed this table to help you better understand the health care provisions in the State fiscal year 2025-26 final budget and GNYHA’s positions. The final budget’s most important health care provisions were major GNYHA priorities—the continuation of a 10% increase in hospital Medicaid outpatient rates, the restoration of $500 million in Vital Access...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders have reached agreement on the health care provisions in the State fiscal year (SFY) 2025-26 budget. These include the continuation of a 10% increase in hospital Medicaid outpatient rates, the restoration of $500 million in Vital Access Provider Assurance Program (VAPAP) funding for financially distressed hospitals, and...