Bill Text: NY A06157 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to directing the commissioner of health to make recommendations relating to increasing certain ambulatory patient group reimbursement rates.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-25 - enacting clause stricken [A06157 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A06157-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6157--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 27, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SKARTADOS, GIGLIO, PALMESANO, MONTESANO, WOERNER, FITZPATRICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing the commissioner of health to make recommendations relating to increasing certain ambulatory patient group reimbursement rates The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2-a of section 2807 of the public health law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (j) to read as follows: 3 (j) The commissioner shall, in conjunction with hospital industry 4 representatives, provide written recommendations to the governor and the 5 legislature on or before October first, two thousand eighteen, on 6 increasing ambulatory patient groups reimbursement rates established 7 pursuant to this subdivision for general hospital outpatient services, 8 general hospital emergency services, diagnostic and treatment center 9 services and ambulatory surgical services, provided by rural hospitals 10 designated as critical access hospitals in accordance with title XVIII 11 of the federal social security act. Such recommendations shall take into 12 consideration the increased costs of providing such services in rural 13 areas as well as the need to maintain access to such services in rural 14 areas. In addition, the recommendations shall contain proposed legis- 15 lation, for incorporation into the state budget for the two thousand 16 nineteen--two thousand twenty fiscal year, to effectuate rate increases 17 effective April first, two thousand nineteen. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01553-03-8
