Provides for supplemental indigent care payments to high-need diagnostic and treatment centers; established criteria for eligibility and allocations; sets amounts for time periods.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5776
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. BRODSKY, GOTTFRIED, CANESTRARI, GLICK, LIFTON,
PAULIN, PHEFFER, CHRISTENSEN, BRADLEY, GALEF, PRETLOW -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to supplemental indi-
gent care allocations to high-need diagnostic and treatment centers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2807-p of the public health law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 4-d to read as follows:
3 4-d. (a) For periods on and after July first, two thousand nine,
4 funds shall be made available in the following amounts for payments to
5 eligible voluntary non-profit diagnostic and treatment centers that
6 demonstrate that a minimum of twenty-five percent of total clinic visits
7 reported during the applicable base year period were to uninsured indi-
8 viduals:
9 (i) For the period July first, two thousand nine through December
10 thirty-first, two thousand nine, three million dollars;
11 (ii) For the period January first, two thousand ten through December
12 thirty-first, two thousand ten, six million dollars; and
13 (iii) For the period January first, two thousand eleven through June
14 thirtieth, two thousand eleven, three million dollars.
15 (b) Funds allocated for payments in accordance with this subdivision
16 shall be distributed as follows: the amount distributed to a diagnostic
17 and treatment center eligible for distributions under this subdivision
18 shall be based on such diagnostic and treatment center's uncompensated
19 nominal need compared to the aggregate uncompensated nominal need of all
20 diagnostic and treatment centers eligible for distributions under this
21 subdivision. Uncompensated nominal need shall be calculated as the nomi-
22 nal payment amount established for such center in accordance with para-
23 graph (b) of subdivision four of this section less the aggregate
24 payments received by such center in accordance with subparagraph (iii)
25 of paragraph (a) and paragraph (c) of subdivision four of this section.
26 § 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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