Bill Text: NY S07774 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the effectiveness of a portable x-ray demonstration program for medicaid recipients; requires relevant data and report on such program to be submitted by the department of health to the legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-06-30 - SIGNED CHAP.79 [S07774 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07774-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7774
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 6, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend chapter 433 of the laws of  1997,  amending  the  public
         health  law  and other laws relating to rates of reimbursement paid to
         hospitals and residential  health  care  facilities,  in  relation  to
         extending  the effectiveness of a portable x-ray demonstration program
         for medicaid recipients
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision (b) of section 1-b of chapter 433 of the laws
    2  of 1997, amending the public health law and other laws relating to rates
    3  of reimbursement paid to hospitals and residential health  care  facili-
    4  ties,  as amended by chapter 272 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read
    5  as follows:
    6    (b) This demonstration program shall be effective until June 30,  2010
    7  provided  federal  financial  participation  is  available  for  medical
    8  assistance expenditures made pursuant to it. This section  shall  expire
    9  June 30, [2014] 2017.
   10    S  2.  Subdivision  (c)  of  section 1-b of chapter 433 of the laws of
   11  1997, amending the public health law and other laws relating to rates of
   12  reimbursement paid to hospitals and residential health care  facilities,
   13  as  amended  by  chapter  272 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as
   14  follows:
   15    (c) The department of health is hereby directed  to  analyze  relevant
   16  data  and  report  to  the legislature by September 1, 1999 and again by
   17  September 1, 2001, September 1, 2002, September 1,  2003,  September  1,
   18  2005,  September 1, 2007, September 1, 2009 [and], September 1, 2013 AND
   19  SEPTEMBER 1, 2015.
   20    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15527-01-4