Bill Text: NY S01288 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to make recommendations to the governor and legislature on increasing ambulatory patient group rates, in the 2016-2017 state fiscal year, for services provided by rural critical access hospitals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S01288 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01288-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1288
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    January 9, 2015
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       Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- (at request of the Legislative Commission on
         Rural  Resources)  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed
         to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  directing  the
         commissioner  of health to make recommendations relating to increasing
         certain ambulatory patient group reimbursement rates
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 2-a of section 2807 of the public health law is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph (j) to read as follows:
    3    (J)  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL,  IN  CONJUNCTION WITH HOSPITAL INDUSTRY
    4  REPRESENTATIVES, PROVIDE WRITTEN RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE GOVERNOR AND THE
    5  LEGISLATURE ON  OR  BEFORE  OCTOBER  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  FIFTEEN,  ON
    6  INCREASING  AMBULATORY  PATIENT  GROUPS  REIMBURSEMENT RATES ESTABLISHED
    7  PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION FOR GENERAL HOSPITAL  OUTPATIENT  SERVICES,
    8  GENERAL  HOSPITAL  EMERGENCY  SERVICES,  DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT CENTER
    9  SERVICES AND AMBULATORY SURGICAL SERVICES, PROVIDED BY  RURAL  HOSPITALS
   10  DESIGNATED  AS  CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH TITLE XVIII
   11  OF THE FEDERAL SOCIAL SECURITY ACT. SUCH RECOMMENDATIONS SHALL TAKE INTO
   12  CONSIDERATION THE INCREASED COSTS OF PROVIDING SUCH  SERVICES  IN  RURAL
   13  AREAS  AS  WELL AS THE NEED TO MAINTAIN ACCESS TO SUCH SERVICES IN RURAL
   14  AREAS. IN ADDITION, THE RECOMMENDATIONS SHALL  CONTAIN  PROPOSED  LEGIS-
   15  LATION,  FOR  INCORPORATION  INTO  THE STATE BUDGET FOR THE TWO THOUSAND
   16  SIXTEEN--TWO  THOUSAND  SEVENTEEN  FISCAL  YEAR,  TO   EFFECTUATE   RATE
   17  INCREASES EFFECTIVE APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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