STATE OF NEW YORK
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6165
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SCHIMEL
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to reimbursement
rates for inpatient hospital services at the Nassau university medical
center
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Clause (C) of subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of subdi-
2 vision 5 of section 2807-c of the public health law is amended by adding
3 a new item (IV) to read as follows:
4 (IV) In order to adequately reimburse Nassau university medical center
5 for the safety-net services it provides to the residents of the county
6 of Nassau, and to reflect its status as a free-standing hospital, for
7 discharges on or after January first, two thousand nine, the reimbursa-
8 ble inpatient operating cost per discharge for the Nassau university
9 medical center shall be computed based on one hundred percent of the
10 Group Average of the Major Public Hospital Group, in accordance with
11 section 86-1.72(a) of the regulations of the department, computed using
12 the cost data related to all members of the Major Public Hospital Group
13 other than the Nassau university medical center or its predecessors, the
14 county of Nassau and/or the Nassau county medical center.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the amend-
16 ments to clause (C) of subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of subdivi-
17 sion 5 of section 2807-c of the public health law, made by section one
18 of this act, shall not affect the expiration of such subparagraph and
19 shall expire therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04100-02-9
