Bill Text: NY A02272 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing the "health care information management act"; requires an annual report by the commissioner to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A02272 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02272-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2272

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 25, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SIMON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,
          DAVILA, DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health  law,  in  relation  to  enacting  the
          health care information management act

          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  article
     2  8-A to read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 8-A
     4                                 HEALTH CARE
     5                         INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ACT
     6  Section 820. Short title.
     7          821. Compilation of data.
     8          822. Presentation of data.
     9          823. Annual report.
    10    §  820.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the
    11  "health care information management act".
    12    § 821. Compilation of data. The commissioner shall establish rules and
    13  regulations requiring every public and private hospital, as  defined  in
    14  subdivision  one of section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter, in
    15  conjunction with emergency and other medical services,  to  compile  the
    16  following  and  submit such data in a form useable for such purposes and
    17  tallied by census tract, annually to the department:
    18    1. With regard to emergency medical services: (a) The length  of  time
    19  between  each  individual's call to 911 and such individual's arrival at
    20  the emergency room;
    21    (b) The length of time between, but not limited to arrival and  admis-
    22  sion at such hospital regardless of method of arrival, which may include
    23  but not be limited to walk-ins and arrival via ambulance;
    24    (c)  The  number of patients treated and released without admission to
    25  such hospital;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (d) The total amount of time between an individual's admission to  the
     2  emergency room and obtaining a bed on the hospital floor;
     3    2.  With regard to other medical services: (a) The total wait time for
     4  all patients to receive a bed and/or stretcher  after  arrival  at  such
     5  hospital;
     6    (b)  The  total wait time for all pregnant women, pre and post-partum,
     7  to receive a bed and/or stretcher after arrival at such hospital;
     8    (c)  The percentage of women admitted, in  labor  with  no  pre-partum
     9  care;
    10    (d) The number of births;
    11    (e) The number of fatalities due to asthma;
    12    (f) The number of fatalities as a result of pulmonary diseases;
    13    (g) The number of patients with any form of cardiac disease; and
    14    (h)  Any  additional  data  the  commissioner  deems pertinent to such
    15  compilation of data.
    16    § 822.   Presentation of  data.  Data  from  all  individual  patients
    17  compiled under section eight hundred twenty-one of this article shall be
    18  placed  into  one of the following categories based on each individual's
    19  current insurance status:
    20    1. Uninsured;
    21    2. Medicare recipient:
    22    (a) Part A;
    23    (b) Part B;
    24    (c) Part C; or
    25    (d) Part D;
    26    3. Medicaid recipient;
    27    4. Insured with an employer-driven insurance plan; or
    28    5. Insured with a metal level of:
    29    (a) Bronze;
    30    (b) Silver;
    31    (c) Gold; or
    32    (d) Platinum.
    33    § 823. Annual report. On or before the first of January, beginning  in
    34  two  thousand  twenty-five  and  every year thereafter, the commissioner
    35  shall submit to the governor, the temporary president of the senate  and
    36  the  speaker  of the assembly, a report of the compiled data outlined in
    37  section eight hundred twenty-one of this article.
    38    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    39  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    40  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    41  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or
    42  before such effective date.