Bill Text: NY A04644 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts monthly assessments due from residential health facilities located in any area designated as a Health Professional Shortage Area or serving a medically underserved population and experiencing a medical assistance utilization rate of eighty-five percent or greater from interest or penalties for any period prior to October 1, 2020.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A04644 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04644-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4644
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health
        AN ACT in relation to exempting monthly assessments due from residential
          health  facilities  located in any area designated as a Health Profes-
          sional Shortage Area or serving a medically underserved population and
          experiencing a medical  assistance  utilization  rate  of  eighty-five
          percent  or greater from interest or penalties for any period prior to
          October 1, 2020
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to
     2  the contrary, monthly assessments due for any period prior to October 1,
     3  2020,  from residential health facilities located in any area designated
     4  as a Health Professional Shortage Area or  serving  a  medically  under-
     5  served population and experiencing a medical assistance utilization rate
     6  of  eighty-five percent or greater as appropriately reported pursuant to
     7  section 2807-d of the public health law on or before December 31,  2020,
     8  shall  not  be subject to interest or penalties as otherwise provided in
     9  such section 2807-d; provided, however, that the residential health care
    10  facility must either pay such amounts or enter into a  repayment  agree-
    11  ment for said amount with the commissioner of health under terms accept-
    12  able to such commissioner on or before March 31, 2021; provided further,
    13  however,  that  with  regard  to  all  assessment,  interest and penalty
    14  amounts collected by the commissioner of health by the effective date of
    15  this act the interest and penalty provisions of section  2807-d  of  the
    16  public health law shall remain in full force and effect and such amounts
    17  collected  shall not be subject to further reconciliation or adjustment.
    18  Health Professional Shortage Areas and medically underserved populations
    19  shall be established based  on  designations  of  areas  as  such  under
    20  section  3320(b)(3)  of the Federal Public Health Service Act as amended
    21  by the Health Care Safety Net Amendments of 2002, Public Law 107-251 and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00611-01-9
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     1  shall include those areas designated by  the  secretary  of  health  and
     2  human  services  as an area with a shortage of personal health services,
     3  or a population group designated by the commissioner of  health as being
     4  underserved in the area of residential health care facility services.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.