Bill Text: NY A00835 | 2021-2022 | 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: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A00835 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A00835-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 835 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, LAVINE, ENGLEBRIGHT, BARRON, STIRPE, ABBATE, SIMON, MAGNARELLI, CARROLL, RICHARDSON, PERRY, WALLACE, ABINANTI, LUPARDO, SAYEGH, STECK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DeSTEFANO -- read once and referred 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 22 of part E of chapter 57 of the laws of 2019, 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00075-02-1A. 835 2 1 for the state fiscal year beginning April 1, 2016 through March 31, 2 2019, and for the state fiscal year beginning April 1, 2019 through 3 March 31, 2022, the department of health is [authorized] required to pay 4 public general hospitals, as defined in subdivision 10 of section 2801 5 of the public health law, operated by the state of New York or by the 6 state university of New York or by a county, which shall not include a 7 city with a population of over one million, of the state of New York, 8 and those public general hospitals located in the county of Westchester, 9 the county of Erie or the county of Nassau, additional payments for 10 inpatient hospital services as medical assistance payments pursuant to 11 title 11 of article 5 of the social services law for patients eligible 12 for federal financial participation under title XIX of the federal 13 social security act in medical assistance pursuant to the federal laws 14 and regulations governing disproportionate share payments to hospitals 15 [up to] of one hundred percent of each such public general hospital's 16 medical assistance and uninsured patient losses after all other medical 17 assistance, including disproportionate share payments to such public 18 general hospital for 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999, based initially for 19 1996 on reported 1994 reconciled data as further reconciled to actual 20 reported 1996 reconciled data, and for 1997 based initially on reported 21 1995 reconciled data as further reconciled to actual reported 1997 22 reconciled data, for 1998 based initially on reported 1995 reconciled 23 data as further reconciled to actual reported 1998 reconciled data, for 24 1999 based initially on reported 1995 reconciled data as further recon- 25 ciled to actual reported 1999 reconciled data, for 2000 based initially 26 on reported 1995 reconciled data as further reconciled to actual 27 reported 2000 data, for 2001 based initially on reported 1995 reconciled 28 data as further reconciled to actual reported 2001 data, for 2002 based 29 initially on reported 2000 reconciled data as further reconciled to 30 actual reported 2002 data, and for state fiscal years beginning on April 31 1, 2005, based initially on reported 2000 reconciled data as further 32 reconciled to actual reported data for 2005, and for state fiscal years 33 beginning on April 1, 2006, based initially on reported 2000 reconciled 34 data as further reconciled to actual reported data for 2006, for state 35 fiscal years beginning on and after April 1, 2007 through March 31, 36 2009, based initially on reported 2000 reconciled data as further recon- 37 ciled to actual reported data for 2007 and 2008, respectively, for state 38 fiscal years beginning on and after April 1, 2009, based initially on 39 reported 2007 reconciled data, adjusted for authorized Medicaid rate 40 changes applicable to the state fiscal year, and as further reconciled 41 to actual reported data for 2009, for state fiscal years beginning on 42 and after April 1, 2010, based initially on reported reconciled data 43 from the base year two years prior to the payment year, adjusted for 44 authorized Medicaid rate changes applicable to the state fiscal year, 45 and further reconciled to actual reported data from such payment year, 46 and to actual reported data for each respective succeeding year. The 47 payments may be added to rates of payment or made as aggregate payments 48 to an eligible public general hospital. 49 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
