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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9297--A
IN ASSEMBLY
February 23, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred 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 hundredth day after it
10 shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14044-06-4
