Provides that freestanding diagnostic and treatment centers receiving comprehensive family planning reproductive health services grants, shall be eligible for state aid for indigent care.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3560
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, NOLAN, WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to diagnostic and
treatment centers providing care to the indigent which are eligible
for the allocation of state funds
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 2 of section 2807-p of the
2 public health law, as amended by section 55 of part A of chapter 58 of
3 the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) "Eligible diagnostic and treatment centers", for purposes of this
5 section, shall mean voluntary non-profit and publicly sponsored diagnos-
6 tic and treatment centers providing a comprehensive range of primary
7 health care services, or is a freestanding diagnostic and treatment
8 center receiving a comprehensive family planning reproductive health
9 services grant from the department, which can demonstrate losses from
10 disproportionate share of uncompensated care during a base period two
11 years prior to the grant period; provided that for periods on and after
12 January first, two thousand four an eligible diagnostic and treatment
13 center shall not include any voluntary non-profit diagnostic and treat-
14 ment center controlling, controlled by or under common control with a
15 health maintenance organization, as defined by subdivision one of
16 section forty-four hundred one of this chapter; provided further that
17 for purposes of this section, a health maintenance organization shall
18 not include a prepaid health services plan licensed pursuant to section
19 forty-four hundred three-a of this chapter. For periods on and after
20 July first, two thousand three, the base period and the grant period
21 shall be the calendar year.
22 § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section 2807-p of the public
23 health law, as amended by section 55 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws
24 of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (c) To be eligible for an allocation of funds or a rate adjustment
2 pursuant to this section, a diagnostic and treatment center must provide
3 a comprehensive range of primary health care services, or is a free-
4 standing diagnostic and treatment center receiving a comprehensive fami-
5 ly planning reproductive health services grant from the department, and
6 must demonstrate that a minimum of five percent of total clinic visits
7 reported during the applicable base year period were to uninsured indi-
8 viduals. The commissioner may retrospectively reduce the allocations of
9 funds or the rate adjustments to a diagnostic and treatment center if it
10 is determined that provider management actions or decisions have caused
11 a significant reduction for the grant period in the delivery of compre-
12 hensive primary health care services to uncompensated care residents of
13 the community.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2016.
