MICHELLE GREENHALGH

OMB Uniform Guidance; HR 1 implementation (including Medicaid cuts, Department of Education student loan borrowing limits and professional student definition NPRMs); HRSA 340b rebate pilot; Mobile Stroke Unit reimbursement; Hospital nutrition guidelines; FY27 LHHS Appropriations; Foreign Medical graduate, J-1 visa and H1-b visa issues.

Proposed changes to OPT; H1B fee increase; duration of status; Administration Immigration Actions: including: (i) Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media(NPRM); (ii) Weighted Selection Process for Registrants and Petitioners Seeking to File Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions(NPRM); and (iii) Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers (proclamation). Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act (S.2759/H.R.5283) and Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act (S.709/H.R.1585).

Save Our Safety Net Hospitals Act S.2743/H.R.5064; ACA Medicaid DSH cuts (Section 2551, P.L. 111-148); One Big Beautiful Bill Act Medicaid cuts (P.L. 119-21); FY26 and FY27 NIH and health research funding; Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (P.L. 119-75); Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act (S.2439/H.R.4731); Safety from Violence for Healthcare Employees (SAVE) Act (S.1600/H.R.3178); CONNECT for Health Act (S.1261/H.R.4206); Repayment of outstanding FEMA COVID-19 hospital reimbursement; Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act (S.2759/H.R.5283); Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act (S.709/H.R.1585); congressional directed spending for Ambulatory Surgical Centers - Expansion of Robotic Surgery Program at Stony Brook Medicine; and congressional directed spending for Ambulatory Surgical Centers - Joint Replacement Surgery Instrument Upgrades at Stony Brook Medicine.