The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its final rule for Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting. The final rule sets individual minimum hours per resident per day (HPRD) staffing requirements for registered nurses (RNs) of .55 HPRD and nurse aides (NAs) of 2.45 HPRD....

Mayor Eric Adams released this week his $111.6 billion Executive budget proposal for fiscal year 2025. The proposal is $2.2 billion more than his preliminary budget released in January due to stronger-than-expected revenue projections. The budget includes more than $5 billion for various health care services and resources, including for school psychologists and social workers...

With the SFY 2024-25 budget finalized, GNYHA is shifting focus to individual bills of importance to our members this legislative session. Here are some of the issues we will prioritize during the remaining 18 session days: 340B Nondiscrimination (A.7789/S.8992) Protects providers from pharmaceutical industry abuses that undermine the Federal 340B drug discount program. Radiographer Supervision...

The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed rule to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) cleared the final stage of the Federal rulemaking process on Monday. LDTs are tests that are designed, developed, performed, and interpreted by board-certified professionals in a single laboratory, often in an academic medical center or cancer center, for their own use...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a rule to require staffing standards in nursing facilities. While existing law requires facilities to have staffing sufficient “to assure resident safety and attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being of each resident,” the new rule identifies explicit required staffing standards....

The amount of Federal DSH funds a state can receive is limited by state-specific allotments established by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. These allotments are updated annually by the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index. Of the $13.4 billion in Federal Medicaid DSH funding allotted nationally in fiscal year (FY) 2022, New York...

1199SEIU President George Gresham and I sent the attached letter yesterday to Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, and members of the New York State Legislature. The letter thanks them for their indispensable role in passing a final State budget that “advances health equity” and “represents a meaningful first step towards reducing...

GNYHA has submitted the attached comments to the New York State Department of Health (DOH) on its proposed regulations to establish new requirements for emergency departments (ED) treating individuals with behavioral health presentations. The proposed regulations look to codify the attached October 2023 guidance jointly issued by DOH and the Office of Mental Health (OMH)....