Bill Text: NY S00755 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Exempts monthly assessments due from residential health facilities located in any area designated as a Health Professional Shortage Area or serving a medically underserved population and experiencing a medical assistance utilization rate of eighty-five percent or greater from interest or penalties for any period prior to October 1, 2020.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S00755 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00755-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                           755
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sens. MONTGOMERY, COMRIE -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT in relation to exempting monthly assessments due from residential
          health facilities located in any area designated as a  Health  Profes-
          sional Shortage Area or serving a medically underserved population and
          experiencing  a  medical  assistance  utilization  rate of eighty-five
          percent or greater from interest or penalties for any period prior  to
          October 1, 2020
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to
     2  the contrary, monthly assessments due for any period prior to October 1,
     3  2020, from residential health facilities located in any area  designated
     4  as  a  Health  Professional  Shortage Area or serving a medically under-
     5  served population and experiencing a medical assistance utilization rate
     6  of eighty-five percent or greater as appropriately reported pursuant  to
     7  section  2807-d of the public health law on or before December 31, 2020,
     8  shall not be subject to interest or penalties as otherwise  provided  in
     9  such section 2807-d; provided, however, that the residential health care
    10  facility  must  either pay such amounts or enter into a repayment agree-
    11  ment for said amount with the commissioner of health under terms accept-
    12  able to such commissioner on or before March 31, 2021; provided further,
    13  however, that with  regard  to  all  assessment,  interest  and  penalty
    14  amounts collected by the commissioner of health by the effective date of
    15  this  act  the  interest and penalty provisions of section 2807-d of the
    16  public health law shall remain in full force and effect and such amounts
    17  collected shall not be subject to further reconciliation or  adjustment.
    18  Health Professional Shortage Areas and medically underserved populations
    19  shall  be  established  based  on  designations  of  areas as such under
    20  section 3320(b)(3) of the Federal Public Health Service Act  as  amended
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00611-01-9

        S. 755                              2
     1  by the Health Care Safety Net Amendments of 2002, Public Law 107-251 and
     2  shall  include  those  areas  designated  by the secretary of health and
     3  human services as an area with a shortage of personal  health  services,
     4  or a population group designated by the commissioner of  health as being
     5  underserved in the area of residential health care facility services.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
feedback