Bill Text: NY A10623 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires safety net hospitals to submit an annual plan for increasing or generating revenue.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-20 - referred to health [A10623 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10623-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10623

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 20, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Rajkumar) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring safety
          net hospitals to submit an annual plan for increasing revenue

          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. (a) Any hospital designated by the  department  as  a  safety  net
     4  hospital  shall  submit  an  annual  plan  to  the  department outlining
     5  proposed policies and actions to generate or increase revenue, and shall
     6  submit follow up reports annually to document  progress  towards  estab-
     7  lished goals. Such policies and actions may include, but are not limited
     8  to, programs to attract more patients with private insurance, methods of
     9  retaining  patients  who go from Medicaid to private insurance, offering
    10  profitable procedures, enrolling eligible patients in Medicaid, collect-
    11  ing payments from patients who can afford to pay, and developing underu-
    12  tilized land in the hospital's possession.
    13    (b) For purposes of this subdivision, a "safety  net  hospital"  shall
    14  mean:
    15    (i)    a  public  hospital, critical access hospital or sole community
    16  hospital; or
    17    (ii) (A) at least thirty-five percent of all patient volume  in  their
    18  outpatient  lines  of business are Medicaid, uninsured and dual eligible
    19  individuals, or (B) at least thirty percent of inpatient  treatment  are
    20  Medicaid, uninsured and dual eligible individuals; or
    21    (iii)  serving  at least thirty percent of all Medicaid, uninsured and
    22  dual eligible members in a county or multi-county community.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    24  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14930-01-4