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
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                                         9800
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 22, 2014
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       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
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