Bill Text: NY S08988 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits hospitals from accessing general hospital indigent care pool funds where they are not in compliance with federal hospital price transparency law and rules; requires DOH reporting; authorizes the commissioner of health to allow such facility continued access to the fund under certain conditions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-15 - PRINT NUMBER 8988A [S08988 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08988-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8988--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 8, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to hospital compli-
          ance with federal hospital price transparency law and rules

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 2805 of the public health law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3. (a) The commissioner shall report monthly  on  hospital  compliance
     4  with  federal  hospital  price  transparency law, rules and regulations.
     5  Such report shall be conspicuously posted on the department's website.
     6    (b) Effective April first, two  thousand  twenty-five,  no    hospital
     7  shall  access any funds pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred seven-k
     8  of this article if they are not  in  material  compliance  with  federal
     9  hospital price transparency law, rules and regulations.  The commission-
    10  er may allow continued access to the fund if such commissioner deems the
    11  facility essential and is making progress towards compliance with feder-
    12  al hospital price transparency law, rules and regulations. Such determi-
    13  nation shall be made on a yearly basis.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    16  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    17  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    18  completed on or before such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14044-05-4