STATE OF NEW YORK
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9476--A
IN ASSEMBLY
March 10, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, COLTON, COOK, DAVILA, DINOWITZ,
LIFTON, RIVERA, STECK, SEAWRIGHT, MOSLEY, LINARES, PERRY, BARRON,
ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BENEDETTO, DILAN, ENGLE-
BRIGHT, FARRELL, GLICK, LENTOL, LOPEZ, MAGEE, McDONOUGH, ROBINSON,
RODRIGUEZ, SEPULVEDA -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Health -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing a
hospital supplemental reimbursement rate adjustment for enhanced safe-
ty net hospitals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2807-c of the public health law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 36 to read as follows:
3 36. Enhanced safety net hospital supplemental rate adjustment. (a)
4 For the purposes of this subdivision, "enhanced safety net hospital"
5 means a hospital which:
6 (i)(A) not less than fifty percent of the patients it treats receive
7 medicaid or are medically uninsured;
8 (B) not less than forty percent of its inpatient discharges are
9 covered by medicaid;
10 (C) twenty-five percent or less of its discharged patients are commer-
11 cially insured;
12 (D) not less than three percent of the patients it provides services
13 to are attributed to the care of uninsured patients; and
14 (E) provides care to uninsured patients in its emergency room, hospi-
15 tal based clinics and community based clinics, including the provision
16 of important community services, such as dental care and prenatal care;
17 (ii) is a public hospital operated by a county, municipality or public
18 benefit corporation; or
19 (iii) is federally designated as a critical access or sole community
20 hospital.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (b) The commissioner shall adjust medical assistance rates to enhanced
2 safety net hospitals for the purposes of supporting critically needed
3 health care services and to ensure the continued maintenance and opera-
4 tion of such hospitals.
5 (c) Payment of the non-federal share of the medical assistance
6 payments made pursuant to this subdivision shall be the responsibility
7 of the state and shall not include a local share. Payments made pursu-
8 ant to this subdivision may be added to rates of payment or made as
9 aggregate payments to eligible general hospitals.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
11 the date on which it shall have become a law.
