February 25, 2022 News Headlines

Our annual Economic and Community Benefit Reports highlight the many measurable ways hospitals and health systems impact their communities. Share our webpage to highlight your organization’s impact, and our video to demonstrate the impact of hospitals and health systems statewide.

With three key areas of needed investment — Medicaid, workforce and infrastructure — we need your help ensuring legislators answer the call to stabilize New York’s healthcare industry with robust funding. See our panel discussion lineup and register for the March 2 event on our website.

They addressed the growing issue of opioid use disorder in pregnancy and neonatal abstinence syndrome through education, non-judgmental care, early recognition and treatment of mothers and improved non-pharmacologic care for newborns. Learn more in our Member Spotlight.

Designed for quality staff, frontline caregivers, middle managers, leaders and physicians, HANYS' Quality Residency Virtual Program strengthens quality improvement work in your organization by providing a solid foundation of quality and patient safety fundamentals. Earn continuing education credits for CPHQ and nursing. Learn more and register on our website.

The ruling strikes the regulation that governs how much insurers will pay to providers for disputed claims. The regulations stated that arbitrators of disputed claims should assume the correct amount for the insurer to pay is the median in-network rate for that geographic area, but the suit, filed by the Texas Medical Association and other doctors’ group, argues that such a presumption violated the language of the NSA itself and did not include factors like the training and quality of doctors. The court held that the NSA unambiguously establishes the framework for deciding payment disputes and that the rule conflicts with the statutory text.

The civil lawsuit, filed by Department of Justice and Attorneys General of New York and Minnesota, intends to stop UnitedHealth Group from acquiring Change Healthcare in a proposed $13 billion transaction. The complaint alleges that the acquisition would eliminate Change as an independent firm, harming competition in both commercial health insurance markets and the market for technology used by health insurers to process insurance claims.

HANYS complex case discharge delay data pilot
March 1

HANYS’ Quality Residency Program
March – May

Standing membership call
March 1

Healthcare Advocacy Day
March 2

Environmental cleaning and disinfection
March 3

Professional liability trends: Where we were, where we are, where we’re going
March 9

Maximizing 340B savings at contract pharmacies: How hospitals are recovering $2.5M a year from 'non-eligible' prescriptions
March 10

Innovations in care and management through Hospital-Home Care Collaboration
March 10

HANYS government relations update call
March 11

Standing membership call
March 15