Bill Text: NY A06234 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 6234 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to payments to rural hospitals designated as critical access hospitals.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-25 - enacting clause stricken [A06234 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06234-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         6234--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 1, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. SKARTADOS, GIGLIO, PALMESANO, MONTESANO, WOERNER,
          BLANKENBUSH,  FITZPATRICK,  JENNE,  JONES -- 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  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to payments to rural
          hospitals designated as critical access hospitals
          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)  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of this subdivision or any
     4  other provision of law to the contrary and, subject to an  appropriation
     5  therefor,  on  and  after  April  first, two thousand nineteen, rates of
     6  payment  for  diagnostic  and  treatment  center   services,   emergency
     7  services, general hospital inpatient and outpatient services, ambulatory
     8  surgical  services and referred ambulatory services, provided by a rural
     9  hospital designated as a critical access  hospital  in  accordance  with
    10  title  XVIII  of  the  federal social security act shall be equal to one
    11  hundred one percent of the reasonable costs of a facility  in  providing
    12  such  services to patients eligible for payments made in accordance with
    13  this subdivision. Reasonable costs  shall  be  determined  in  a  manner
    14  consistent  with  that used to determine payment for outpatient critical
    15  access hospital services provided to beneficiaries of title XVIII of the
    16  federal social security act. For facilities without adequate cost  expe-
    17  rience,  such  rates  shall  be  based  on  budgeted  costs subsequently
    18  adjusted to one hundred one percent of reasonable actual costs.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    20  the implementation of the provisions of this act shall be subject to the
    21  appropriation of moneys specifically for the purposes thereof.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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