Bill Text: NY S07947 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the department of health to make additional payments for inpatient services provided to recipients of medical assistance by certain public hospitals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-15 - referred to health [S07947 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S07947-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7947 IN SENATE May 27, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HANNON, DeFRANCISCO, GOLDEN, LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend chapter 474 of the laws of 1996, amending the education law and other laws relating to rates for residential healthcare facil- ities, in relation to directing the department of health to make addi- tional payments for inpatient services to certain public general hospitals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 212 of chapter 2 474 of the laws of 1996, amending the education law and other laws 3 relating to rates for residential healthcare facilities, as amended by 4 section 1 of part D of chapter 59 of the laws of 2016, is amended to 5 read as follows: 6 (a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law or regulation to 7 the contrary, effective beginning August 1, 1996, for the period April 8 1, 1997 through March 31, 1998, April 1, 1998 for the period April 1, 9 1998 through March 31, 1999, August 1, 1999, for the period April 1, 10 1999 through March 31, 2000, April 1, 2000, for the period April 1, 2000 11 through March 31, 2001, April 1, 2001, for the period April 1, 2001 12 through March 31, 2002, April 1, 2002, for the period April 1, 2002 13 through March 31, 2003, and for the state fiscal year beginning April 1, 14 2005 through March 31, 2006, and for the state fiscal year beginning 15 April 1, 2006 through March 31, 2007, and for the state fiscal year 16 beginning April 1, 2007 through March 31, 2008, and for the state fiscal 17 year beginning April 1, 2008 through March 31, 2009, and for the state 18 fiscal year beginning April 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010, and for the 19 state fiscal year beginning April 1, 2010 through March 31, 2016, and 20 for the state fiscal year beginning April 1, 2016 through March 31, 21 2019, the department of health is [authorized] required to pay public 22 general hospitals, as defined in subdivision 10 of section 2801 of the 23 public health law, operated by the state of New York or by the state 24 university of New York or by a county, which shall not include a city EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15619-02-6S. 7947 2 1 with a population of over one million, of the state of New York, and 2 those public general hospitals located in the county of Westchester, the 3 county of Erie or the county of Nassau, additional payments for inpa- 4 tient hospital services as medical assistance payments pursuant to title 5 11 of article 5 of the social services law for patients eligible for 6 federal financial participation under title XIX of the federal social 7 security act in medical assistance pursuant to the federal laws and 8 regulations governing disproportionate share payments to hospitals [up9to] of one hundred percent of each such public general hospital's 10 medical assistance and uninsured patient losses after all other medical 11 assistance, including disproportionate share payments to such public 12 general hospital for 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999, based initially for 13 1996 on reported 1994 reconciled data as further reconciled to actual 14 reported 1996 reconciled data, and for 1997 based initially on reported 15 1995 reconciled data as further reconciled to actual reported 1997 16 reconciled data, for 1998 based initially on reported 1995 reconciled 17 data as further reconciled to actual reported 1998 reconciled data, for 18 1999 based initially on reported 1995 reconciled data as further recon- 19 ciled to actual reported 1999 reconciled data, for 2000 based initially 20 on reported 1995 reconciled data as further reconciled to actual 21 reported 2000 data, for 2001 based initially on reported 1995 reconciled 22 data as further reconciled to actual reported 2001 data, for 2002 based 23 initially on reported 2000 reconciled data as further reconciled to 24 actual reported 2002 data, and for state fiscal years beginning on April 25 1, 2005, based initially on reported 2000 reconciled data as further 26 reconciled to actual reported data for 2005, and for state fiscal years 27 beginning on April 1, 2006, based initially on reported 2000 reconciled 28 data as further reconciled to actual reported data for 2006, for state 29 fiscal years beginning on and after April 1, 2007 through March 31, 30 2009, based initially on reported 2000 reconciled data as further recon- 31 ciled to actual reported data for 2007 and 2008, respectively, for state 32 fiscal years beginning on and after April 1, 2009, based initially on 33 reported 2007 reconciled data, adjusted for authorized Medicaid rate 34 changes applicable to the state fiscal year, and as further reconciled 35 to actual reported data for 2009, for state fiscal years beginning on 36 and after April 1, 2010, based initially on reported reconciled data 37 from the base year two years prior to the payment year, adjusted for 38 authorized Medicaid rate changes applicable to the state fiscal year, 39 and further reconciled to actual reported data from such payment year, 40 and to actual reported data for each respective succeeding year. The 41 payments may be added to rates of payment or made as aggregate payments 42 to an eligible public general hospital. 43 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.