Amends the inpatient reimbursement rates for those general hospitals most significantly affected by revenue losses resulting from Medicaid rebasing that took effect 12/1/2009.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10119--A
IN ASSEMBLY
March 5, 2010
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Introduced by M. of A. DelMONTE, PARMENT, GIGLIO -- 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 inpatient
reimbursement rates for general hospitals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 35 of section 2807-c of the
2 public health law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi) to read
3 as follows:
4 (vi) (A) Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary,
5 a general hospital whose total medicaid revenues resulting from the
6 medicaid rates that took effect on December first, two thousand nine
7 pursuant to this subdivision have been reduced to such an extent that
8 the hospital ranks among the top five percent of hospitals in New York
9 state in terms of the percentage reduction in the hospital's total medi-
10 caid revenues, shall be entitled to receive an add-on to its rates that
11 is equivalent to the incremental difference between uninsured units of
12 services and cost based methodologies for the year two thousand nine
13 indigent care pool. Such difference shall be divided by the year two
14 thousand five fee-for-service discharges.
15 (B) Funds in an amount totaling three million sixty thousand dollars
16 shall be allocated pursuant to this section and shall be offset in the
17 budget neutrality factor for the state-wide rates. The commissioner is
18 hereby authorized and directed to adopt rules and regulations to imple-
19 ment the provisions of this section.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2010, provided, however, that
21 the commissioner of health shall promulgate any rules and regulations
22 necessary for the implementation of this act on or before such effective
23 date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16239-03-0
