The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed changes to performance year (PY) 2 of the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) model. The model seeks to increase access to kidney transplants by incentivizing kidney transplant hospitals to improve care delivery, supporting care coordination, and promoting patient centeredness in the organ transplant waitlist process....

The New York State Office of Victim Services (OVS), which reimburses victims of eligible crimes for related out-of-pocket expenses, including health care costs, recently updated its reimbursement protocol. Effective December 31, 2025, providers may be asked to verify a crime as part of a patient’s application to OVS for reimbursement, eliminating the need for patients...

This GNYHA-developed resource contains enrollment figures across the following plan types: Medicare Advantage, Child Health Plus, Health & Recovery Plans (HARP), Medicaid Managed Care including HARP, Managed Long Term Care (MLTC), Medicaid Advantage, and HIV/SNP. The data is aggregated and compiled from the Department of Health and values are calculated on a rolling monthly and...

The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) announced today that nurses at 12 hospitals and health systems whose contracts with NYSNA expire on December 31, 2025, have voted to authorize a strike. This vote gives the NYSNA bargaining committees at those institutions the authority to announce a strike—with a mandatory 10-day notice—at any time starting...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul acted last night on a package of bills, including several affecting hospitals and nursing homes. She has either signed or vetoed these bills and finalized any changes agreed upon by the Executive and Legislature (known as chapter amendments). Only two bills passed by both the Senate and Assembly during the...

GNYHA submitted the attached comments in response to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposal to rescind the public charge ground of inadmissibility regulations. The Trump Administration is proposing to eliminate the core elements of a rule that the Biden Administration promulgated in 2022. The “public charge” rules refer to the longstanding framework for...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the calendar year (CY) 2026 Medicare outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system final rule, and the CY 2026 Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS) final rule. Under the OPPS final rule, hospital outpatient payments are estimated to increase by 2.6%...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the calendar year (CY) 2026 Medicare outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system final rule, and the CY 2026 Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS) final rule. Under the OPPS final rule, hospital outpatient payments are estimated to increase by 2.6%...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized changes to the Hospital Price Transparency (HPT) requirements. These updates mandate a shift from reporting estimated charges to reporting historical transactional data and new attestation requirements. While the requirements are effective January 1, 2026, CMS will delay enforcement of the finalized revisions until April 1,...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded the fourth round of 200 of the 1,000 residency slots available under Section 126 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), 2021. Fourteen GNYHA member hospitals received Section 126 residency slot awards in this fourth round of slots, which will be effective July 1, 2026. CMS...