The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has mandated new hospital price transparency requirements for 2024. Providers must use one of the CMS templates encoded with current and new data elements by July 1, 2024, to be compliant. GNYHA will convene a workgroup on April 25 for members to discuss their progress meeting these…

GNYHA will host its next Finance & Reimbursement Committee meeting on April 26 at 10:00 a.m. Gene Nickerson from National Government Services will discuss implementation of the recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services transmittal addressing cost report settlements stemming from the Allina Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) Supreme Court decision, as well as any…

GNYHA anticipates that New York State will apply for the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center’s (CMMI) total cost of care and hospital global budget initiative—called the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model—for the downstate region. We are pleased that staff from CMMI and the New York…

On Friday, March 15, 2024, GNYHA convened its Community Affairs Representatives Forum. The meeting included a refresher on the health equity-related data that hospitals must report to the Centers on Medicare and Medicaid Services, NYS’ recently approved 1115 waiver (including a section on the social care networks), and a briefing on the development of the…