Bill Text: NY S06948 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes a hospital supplemental reimbursement rate adjustment for enhanced safety net hospitals.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-2)

Status: (Vetoed) 2016-12-31 - VETOED MEMO.305 [S06948 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06948-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6948--A
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 8, 2016
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        Introduced by Sens. HANNON, HASSELL-THOMPSON, HOYLMAN, MONTGOMERY, PARK-
          ER,  PERSAUD,  RIVERA,  SANDERS,  STAVISKY,  VALESKY -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Health  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  establishing  a
          hospital supplemental reimbursement rate adjustment for enhanced safe-
          ty net hospitals
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 2807-c of the  public  health  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 36 to read as follows:
     3    36.  Enhanced  safety  net hospital supplemental rate adjustment.  (a)
     4  For the purposes of this subdivision,  "enhanced  safety  net  hospital"
     5  means a hospital which:
     6    (i)(A)  not  less than fifty percent of the patients it treats receive
     7  medicaid or are medically uninsured;
     8    (B) not less than  forty  percent  of  its  inpatient  discharges  are
     9  covered by medicaid;
    10    (C) twenty-five percent or less of its discharged patients are commer-
    11  cially insured;
    12    (D)  not  less than three percent of the patients it provides services
    13  to are attributed to the care of uninsured patients; and
    14    (E) provides care to uninsured patients in its emergency room,  hospi-
    15  tal  based  clinics and community based clinics, including the provision
    16  of important community services, such as dental care and prenatal care;
    17    (ii) is a public hospital operated by a county, municipality or public
    18  benefit corporation; or
    19    (iii) is federally designated as a critical access or  sole  community
    20  hospital.
    21    (b) The commissioner shall adjust medical assistance rates to enhanced
    22  safety  net  hospitals  for the purposes of supporting critically needed
    23  health care services and to ensure the continued maintenance and  opera-
    24  tion of such hospitals.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13573-06-6
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     1    (c)  Payment  of  the  non-federal  share  of  the  medical assistance
     2  payments made pursuant to this subdivision shall be  the  responsibility
     3  of  the state and shall not include a local share.  Payments made pursu-
     4  ant to this subdivision may be added to rates  of  payment  or  made  as
     5  aggregate payments to eligible general hospitals.
     6    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
     7  the date on which it shall have become a law.