Requires quarterly reporting on hospital compliance with federal hospital price transparency law, rules and regulations; establishes a civil penalty for non-compliance.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5693--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 28, 2025
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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, rules and regu-
lations
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. The commissioner shall report quarterly 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 § 2. Hospitals not in compliance with federal price transparency law,
7 rules and regulations shall be subject to penalties under section 12 of
8 the public health law.
9 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
10 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05296-03-5
