Bill Text: NY A09800 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for reimbursement for the provision of offsite primary care services by general hospital outpatient clinics and diagnostic and treatment centers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-22 - referred to health [A09800 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A09800-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 9800 I N A S S E M B L Y May 22, 2014 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to reimbursement for the provision of offsite primary care services THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 2807 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 22 to read as follows: 3 22. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, AND 4 SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FEDERAL FINANCIAL PARTICIPATION, GENERAL 5 HOSPITAL OUTPATIENT CLINICS AND DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT CENTERS SHALL 6 BE REIMBURSED FOR THE PROVISION OF OFFSITE PRIMARY CARE SERVICES TO 7 EXISTING PATIENTS IN NEED OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AVAILABLE AT THE 8 GENERAL HOSPITAL OUTPATIENT CLINIC OR DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT CENTER, 9 BUT, DUE TO THE INDIVIDUAL'S MEDICAL CONDITION, IS UNABLE TO RECEIVE THE 10 SERVICES ON THE PREMISES OF THE GENERAL HOSPITAL OUTPATIENT CLINIC OR 11 DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT CENTER. 12 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 13 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15125-01-4