GNYHA submitted the attached comments and spoke at New York State’s September 19 meeting of the Public Health and Health Planning Council (PHHPC) Health Planning Committee (HPC) on the topic of allowing ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) to perform diagnostic cardiac catheterizations and low-risk, non-emergent percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs), minimally invasive procedures that can open narrow...

Since 2016, GNYHA and the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) have collaborated on the Hospital Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) Notification Program, which provides early warning to New York City 911-receiving hospitals about potential patient surges to emergency departments. In June, GNYHA and FDNY modified the program to better align it with...

Yesterday President Donald Trump issued a proclamation setting forth new restrictions under the H1-B visa program. The program is for highly skilled and educated workers. In the health care sector, H1-B workers may be graduate medical trainees, physicians, and medical researchers. On its face the proclamation posed an immediate risk that any H1-B worker who...

GNYHA Executive Vice President Elisabeth Wynn testified on Monday before the Committees on Governmental Operations, Hospitals, and General Welfare on “The Impacts of Federal Budget Cuts.” Her testimony (attached) covered the destructive impacts of H.R. 1 on New York’s hospitals. It also outlined the law’s changes to Medicaid and New York’s Essential Plan, which will...

On Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing on “Virtue Signaling vs. Vital Services: Where Tax-Exempt Hospitals are Spending Your Tax Dollars.” Topics included care deserts, community benefit, charity care, health care consolidation, 340B, dual classification, uncompensated care, and Medicare and Medicaid issues. Representative Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) highlighted Staten...

After passing H.R. 1, Congress spent much of the summer and early fall crafting full-year Federal fiscal year (FY) 2026 spending bills. Like last year, House and Senate appropriators advanced most of their full-year bills with dramatically different funding levels and no room for compromise. With only a few days remaining in FY 2025, Congress...

GNYHA submitted comments (attached) to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) in response to requests for feedback on two proposals for states to regulate insurer use of artificial intelligence (AI): 1) a request for information on considerations for a model law regulating the use of AI in the insurance industry, and 2) a draft...

United Healthcare (UHC) has informed GNYHA (attached) that it is delaying implementation of its Facility “Payment Reduction of Off-Campus Provider-Based Departments Billed with Modifier PO Policy” until further notice. The policy, which was scheduled to become effective on September 1, 2025, would unilaterally cut reimbursement for off-campus hospital outpatient clinic visits by 60%. UHC notes...