Bill Text: NY A03560 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that freestanding diagnostic and treatment centers receiving comprehensive family planning reproductive health services grants, shall be eligible for state aid for indigent care.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to health [A03560 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03560-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3560
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 27, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, NOLAN, WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Health
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to diagnostic and
         treatment centers providing care to the indigent  which  are  eligible
         for the allocation of state funds
         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 2 of  section  2807-p  of  the
    2  public  health  law, as amended by section 55 of part A of chapter 58 of
    3  the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (a) "Eligible diagnostic and treatment centers", for purposes of  this
    5  section, shall mean voluntary non-profit and publicly sponsored diagnos-
    6  tic  and  treatment  centers  providing a comprehensive range of primary
    7  health care services, OR IS  A  FREESTANDING  DIAGNOSTIC  AND  TREATMENT
    8  CENTER  RECEIVING  A  COMPREHENSIVE  FAMILY PLANNING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
    9  SERVICES GRANT FROM THE DEPARTMENT, which can  demonstrate  losses  from
   10  disproportionate  share  of  uncompensated care during a base period two
   11  years prior to the grant period; provided that for periods on and  after
   12  January  first,  two  thousand four an eligible diagnostic and treatment
   13  center shall not include any voluntary non-profit diagnostic and  treat-
   14  ment  center  controlling,  controlled by or under common control with a
   15  health maintenance  organization,  as  defined  by  subdivision  one  of
   16  section  forty-four  hundred  one of this chapter; provided further that
   17  for purposes of this section, a health  maintenance  organization  shall
   18  not  include a prepaid health services plan licensed pursuant to section
   19  forty-four hundred three-a of this chapter. For  periods  on  and  after
   20  July  first,  two  thousand  three, the base period and the grant period
   21  shall be the calendar year.
   22    S 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section 2807-p  of  the  public
   23  health law, as amended by section 55 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws
   24  of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    (c)  To  be  eligible  for an allocation of funds or a rate adjustment
    2  pursuant to this section, a diagnostic and treatment center must provide
    3  a comprehensive range of primary health care services,  OR  IS  A  FREE-
    4  STANDING DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT CENTER RECEIVING A COMPREHENSIVE FAMI-
    5  LY  PLANNING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES GRANT FROM THE DEPARTMENT, and
    6  must demonstrate that a minimum of five percent of total  clinic  visits
    7  reported  during the applicable base year period were to uninsured indi-
    8  viduals. The commissioner may retrospectively reduce the allocations  of
    9  funds or the rate adjustments to a diagnostic and treatment center if it
   10  is  determined that provider management actions or decisions have caused
   11  a significant reduction for the grant period in the delivery of  compre-
   12  hensive  primary health care services to uncompensated care residents of
   13  the community.
   14    S 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2016.
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