The New York State Department of Health announced Wednesday that it received Federal approval to revert to the Basic Health Plan (BHP), which allows the State to access about $10 billion in Federal BHP Trust Fund dollars to mitigate HR 1’s cuts to the Essential Plan and to preserve health insurance coverage for over a...

Representatives Doris Matsui (D-CA), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), and Tracey Mann (R-KS) are circulating the attached bipartisan letter requesting language in the FY 2027 Labor-HHS-Ed bill that prohibits the use of funds to implement a 340B rebate model. The letter requests the following bill language: None of the funds made available in this...

After years of advocacy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) finally released the final tranche of Public Assistance reimbursements for the COVID-19 funds owed to hospitals. Of the $2 billion in outstanding funds, New York hospitals are expected to receive $1.1 billion. Impacted hospitals must now work with their New York State Division of Homeland...

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) has finalized State fiscal year (SFY) 2024-25 incentive payments totaling $24 million for the low-risk cesarean delivery rate reduction State directed payment (SDP) program. As of February 25, Medicaid managed care (MMC) health plans have been fully funded with the payments, and DOH has directed plans to...

As we have reported, New York State has enacted a Medical Aid-in-Dying (MAID) law. GNYHA did not take a position on it but did request a reasonable amount of lead time to allow for education and training. We are grateful that New York Governor Kathy Hochul and the Legislature adjusted the effective date to August...

At this morning’s GNYHA Board of Governors meeting, Lee Perlman discussed a paper (attached) he co-authored called Increasing Transparency and Fairness on IRS Reporting Requirements of Supplemental Benefits. The other authors are Ralph Dejong, Retired Partner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP; Bruce Greenblatt, Managing Director, SullivanCotter; and Kathy Hastings, Managing Director, SullivanCotter. The paper focuses...

Retreat: March 19-20 Cover Page Powerpoint Related Materials CQFP March 2026 Retreat Agenda n/a Welcome Letter Who We Are Key Dates 2026-27 2026 Faculty Contacts 2026 Class Bios Retreat Faculty Bios Introduction to Clinical Quality Fellowship Program Open Discussion: What is Quality? n/a What is Quality? A Case Study The Safety of Inpatient Health Care...

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...

GNYHA has been in touch with members, government agencies, and the non-profit health care cybersecurity organization Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) about a cyber incident affecting the medical device and equipment company Stryker. In the attached bulletin about the cyber incident, which occurred this morning, Health-ISAC outlined current crowd-sourced information and reported impacts....

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) has released the initial 2025 Indigent Care Pool (ICP) and voluntary hospital upper payment limit (UPL) distribution model (attached). This model uses unaudited 2023 Institutional Cost Report data—including uninsured units of service, total hospital cost, and Medicaid dual eligible discharges—along with January 1, 2025, Medicaid rates to...