June 13, 2025 News Headlines

Through their partnership with Food Rescue US – North Fork, Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital is feeding their neighbors and reducing their impact on the environment. Learn more in our Member Spotlight.

This week the following bills passed both houses:

• Wrongful death (A.6063/S.4423)
• Language services in hospitals (A.387-B/S.6288-B)
• Licensed creative art therapists (commercial) (A.3319/S.1001)
• Frontotemporal degeneration registry (A.1985-C/S.598-B)
• Sexual offense evidence reporting (A.1970-A/S.5225-A)
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and motor neuron disease reporting registry (A.7845/S.6413)
• Hospital closures (A.6004/S.1226)
• Policy-based exclusion information (A.3862/S.3486)
• Healthcare worker victim impact statements (A.6055-A/S.4906-A)
• Medical aid in dying (A.136/S.138)
• Written information on episiotomy (A.2168/S.7545)
• Hospital violence prevention program (A.203-B/S.5294-B)
• Storage of deceased bodies in nursing homes (A.1365-A/S.15-A)

Please use our Significant State Legislation tool to browse all bills of interest that passed both houses, were signed into law or vetoed during the 2025 session.

This week, HANYS submitted comments to CMS on the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Medicare Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Prospective Payment System proposed rules for FFY 2026.

HANYS’ 56th Annual Membership Conference
June 18-20

DataGen’s Summer 2025 Sg2 MarketEdge User Group Sessions
June 23-27

The latest in healthcare AI: Functions, results, risks and research
June 23

Standing membership call on state and federal issues
June 24

Antimicrobial stewarding skin and soft tissue infections
June 26