STATE OF NEW YORK
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7901
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 13, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- 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 general hospital
cost reports
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2807 of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 22 to read as follows:
3 22. (a) For purposes of this subdivision, "institutional cost reports"
4 shall mean the annual financial and statistical report forms that cover
5 a consecutive twelve-month period of a general hospital's operations and
6 are submitted by general hospitals to the Centers for Medicare and Medi-
7 caid Services pursuant to 42 CFR § 413.24.
8 (b) General hospitals shall post publicly on their website, in a
9 conspicuous place, its institutional cost reports, as defined by this
10 subdivision, at the time and in the manner such institutional cost
11 reports are submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,
12 which shall be on or before the last day of the fifth month following
13 the close of the period covered by such report, provided, however, that
14 for cost reports ending on a day other than the last day of the month,
15 such reports shall be due to the department one hundred fifty days after
16 the last day of the cost reporting period.
17 (c) General hospitals shall publicly post on their website, in a
18 conspicuous place, its institutional cost reports within thirty days of
19 submitting such institutional cost report to the Centers for Medicare
20 and Medicaid Services. Reports shall be publicly posted in the form and
21 manner such hospital submits them to the Centers for Medicare and Medi-
22 caid Services, regardless of whether such reports are complete or incom-
23 plete, audited or unaudited.
24 (d) Failure to publicly post such institutional cost reports in the
25 time prescribed by this subdivision shall constitute a violation of this
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 subdivision. Violations of this subdivision shall subject a general
2 hospital to the penalties of section twelve of this chapter for each day
3 such cost reports are not submitted to the department, and the failure
4 of a general hospital to file such institutional cost report for more
5 than one day shall be deemed a continuing and repeat violation and
6 subject such general hospital to the enhanced penalties of paragraph (b)
7 of subdivision one of section twelve of this chapter.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
