Bill Text: NY A07862 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 7862 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Provides that no penalties for late, incomplete or inaccurate data shall be assessed against managed care organizations except in cases of fraud or abuse.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-26 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [A07862 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07862-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7862--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 17, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the social services law, in relation to penalties to
          managed care organizations
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (d)  of subdivision 32 of section 364-j of the
     2  social services law, as added by section 15 of part B of chapter  59  of
     3  the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (d) (i) Penalties under this subdivision may be applied to any and all
     5  circumstances  described  in paragraph (b) of this subdivision until the
     6  managed care organization complies with the requirements for  submission
     7  of encounter data.
     8    (ii)  No  penalties  for late, incomplete or inaccurate encounter data
     9  shall be assessed against managed  care  organizations  in  addition  to
    10  those  provided for in this subdivision, provided, however, that nothing
    11  in this paragraph shall prohibit the imposition of penalties,  in  cases
    12  of fraud or abuse, otherwise authorized by law.
    13    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law, provided that the amendments to section 364-j of  the
    15  social  services  law, made by section one of this act, shall not affect
    16  the repeal of such section, and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10145-02-7