Relates to establishing the "health care information management act"; requires an annual report by the commissioner to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7652--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 21, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, ARROYO, BLAKE, CLARK, COOK, MOSLEY, ORTIZ
-- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DINOWITZ, RIVERA -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enacting the
health care information management act
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new article
2 8-A to read as follows:
3 ARTICLE 8-A
4 HEALTH CARE
5 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ACT
6 Section 820. Short title.
7 821. Compilation of data.
8 822. Presentation of data.
9 823. Annual report.
10 § 820. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the
11 "health care information management act".
12 § 821. Compilation of data. The commissioner shall establish rules and
13 regulations requiring every public and private hospital, as defined in
14 subdivision one of section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter, in
15 conjunction with emergency and other medical services, to compile the
16 following and submit such data in a form useable for such purposes and
17 tallied by census tract, annually to the department:
18 1. With regard to emergency medical services: (a) The length of time
19 between each individual's call to 911 and such individual's arrival at
20 the emergency room;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (b) The length of time between, but not limited to arrival and admis-
2 sion at such hospital regardless of method of arrival, which may include
3 but not be limited to walk-ins and arrival via ambulance;
4 (c) The number of patients treated and released without admission to
5 such hospital;
6 (d) The total amount of time between an individual's admission to the
7 emergency room and obtaining a bed on the hospital floor;
8 2. With regard to other medical services: (a) The total wait time for
9 all patients to receive a bed and/or stretcher after arrival at such
10 hospital;
11 (b) The total wait time for all pregnant women, pre and post-partum,
12 to receive a bed and/or stretcher after arrival at such hospital;
13 (c) The percentage of women admitted, in labor with no pre-partum
14 care;
15 (d) The number of births;
16 (e) The number of fatalities due to asthma;
17 (f) The number of fatalities as a result of pulmonary diseases;
18 (g) The number of patients with any form of cardiac disease; and
19 (h) Any additional data the commissioner deems pertinent to such
20 compilation of data.
21 § 822. Presentation of data. Data from all individual patients
22 compiled under section eight hundred twenty-one of this article shall be
23 placed into one of the following categories based on each individual's
24 current insurance status:
25 1. Uninsured;
26 2. Medicare recipient:
27 (a) Part A;
28 (b) Part B;
29 (c) Part C; or
30 (d) Part D;
31 3. Medicaid recipient;
32 4. Insured with an employer-driven insurance plan; or
33 5. Insured with a metal level of:
34 (a) Bronze;
35 (b) Silver;
36 (c) Gold; or
37 (d) Platinum.
38 § 823. Annual report. On or before the first of January, beginning in
39 two thousand seventeen and every year thereafter, the commissioner shall
40 submit to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the
41 speaker of the assembly, a report of the compiled data outlined in
42 section eight hundred twenty-one of this article.
43 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
44 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
45 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
46 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date is
47 authorized to be made on or before such effective date.
