Bill Text: NY S08461 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that the most recent rating of every nursing home assigned pursuant to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS rating), shall be prominently displayed on the home page of the department's website and at each nursing home facility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S08461 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08461-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8461

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 3, 2020
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  publication  of
          nursing home ratings

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2808-e to read as follows:
     3    § 2808-e. Nursing home ratings. 1. The commissioner shall provide that
     4  the  most  recent  star  rating  of every nursing home   facility in the
     5  state, assigned pursuant to the inspection rating  system  of  the  U.S.
     6  Centers  for  Medicare and Medicaid Services (overall CMS rating), shall
     7  be prominently displayed on the home page of the  department's  website,
     8  or by an easily accessible link to such information.
     9    2. Each nursing home facility shall post its overall CMS rating on the
    10  homepage  of  any website maintained by such facility and on any website
    11  or webpage relating to such facility maintained by an entity which  owns
    12  or  operates  such  facility. Each nursing home shall also conspicuously
    13  post its most recent overall CMS rating so that it  is  visible  to  the
    14  general public and to residents.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11279-05-0