Bill Text: NY A01167 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to payment for services performed in an office-based surgical facility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to insurance [A01167 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01167-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1167
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    January 8, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Insurance
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health  law, in relation to payment for
         services performed in an office-based surgical facility
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 230-d of the public health law is amended by adding
    2  a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    3    6. ANY LICENSEE WHO OBTAINS ACCREDITED STATUS AS SET FORTH PURSUANT TO
    4  THIS SECTION SHALL RECEIVE PAYMENT FROM A HEALTH PLAN FOR THE USE OF THE
    5  OFFICE-BASED  SURGICAL  FACILITY  IN ADDITION TO THE FEE CHARGED FOR THE
    6  PERFORMANCE OF THE MEDICALLY NECESSARY PROCEDURE INVOLVING A HEALTH PLAN
    7  ENROLLEE OR INSURED. FOR THE PURPOSES OF  THIS  SECTION,  "HEALTH  PLAN"
    8  SHALL  BE DEFINED AS AN INSURER THAT IS LICENSED UNDER THE INSURANCE LAW
    9  TO WRITE ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE, OR THAT IS LICENSED PURSUANT  TO
   10  ARTICLE  FORTY-THREE  OF  THE INSURANCE LAW, OR IS CERTIFIED PURSUANT TO
   11  ARTICLE FORTY-FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02866-01-5
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