Bill Text: NY S04532 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to directing the commissioner of health to make recommendations relating to increasing certain ambulatory patient group reimbursement rates.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-26 - PRINT NUMBER 4532A [S04532 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4532
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 16, 2017
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        Introduced  by Sen. HELMING -- (at request of the Legislative Commission
          on Rural Resources) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when print-
          ed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  directing  the
          commissioner  of health to make recommendations relating to increasing
          certain ambulatory patient group reimbursement rates
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2-a of section 2807 of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (j) to read as follows:
     3    (j)  The  commissioner  shall,  in  conjunction with hospital industry
     4  representatives, provide written recommendations to the governor and the
     5  legislature on or before  October  first,  two  thousand  seventeen,  on
     6  increasing  ambulatory  patient  groups  reimbursement rates established
     7  pursuant to this subdivision for general hospital  outpatient  services,
     8  general  hospital  emergency  services,  diagnostic and treatment center
     9  services and ambulatory surgical services, provided by  rural  hospitals
    10  designated  as  critical access hospitals in accordance with title XVIII
    11  of the federal social security act. Such recommendations shall take into
    12  consideration the increased costs of providing such  services  in  rural
    13  areas  as  well as the need to maintain access to such services in rural
    14  areas. In addition, the recommendations shall  contain  proposed  legis-
    15  lation,  for  incorporation  into  the state budget for the two thousand
    16  eighteen--two  thousand  nineteen  fiscal  year,  to   effectuate   rate
    17  increases effective April first, two thousand eighteen.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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