Adds an acute children's hospital licensed by the department primarily for the provision of pediatric and neonatal services to the term enhanced safety net hospital.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3511--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, ABINANTI, WALLACE -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Commit-
tee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to adding an acute
children's hospital to the term enhanced safety net hospital
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 34 of section 2807-c of the
2 public health law, as added by section 3 of part K of chapter 57 of the
3 laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) For the purposes of this subdivision, "enhanced safety net hospi-
5 tal" shall mean a hospital which:
6 (i) in any of the previous three calendar years, has met the following
7 criteria:
8 (A) not less than fifty percent of the patients it treats receive
9 medicaid or are medically uninsured;
10 (B) not less than forty percent of its inpatient discharges are
11 covered by medicaid;
12 (C) twenty-five percent or less of its discharged patients are commer-
13 cially insured;
14 (D) not less than three percent of the patients it provides services
15 to are attributed to the care of uninsured patients; and
16 (E) provides care to uninsured patients in its emergency room, hospi-
17 tal based clinics and community based clinics, including the provision
18 of important community services, such as dental care and prenatal care;
19 (ii) is a public hospital operated by a county, municipality, public
20 benefit corporation or the state university of New York;
21 (iii) is an acute children's hospital licensed by the department
22 primarily for the provision of pediatric and neonatal services for which
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 a discrete institutional cost report was filed for the past three calen-
2 dar years, and which has medicaid discharges in excess of fifty percent
3 of its total discharges;
4 (iv) is federally designated as a critical access hospital; or
5 [(iv)] (v) is federally designated as a sole community hospital.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
