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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5431--A
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      May 20, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, BONACIC, RITCHIE -- (at request of the Legis-
          lative Commission on Rural Resources) -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed,  and  when  printed  to be committed 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 payments to rural
          hospitals designated as critical access hospitals
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2-a of section 2807 of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (j) to read as follows:
     3    (j)  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of this subdivision or any
     4  other provision of law to the contrary, on and after  April  first,  two
     5  thousand  twelve,  rates  of payment for diagnostic and treatment center
     6  services, emergency  services,  general  hospital  outpatient  services,
     7  ambulatory  surgical services and referred ambulatory services, provided

     8  by a rural hospital designated as a critical access hospital in  accord-
     9  ance  with title XVIII of the federal social security act shall be equal
    10  to one hundred one percent of the reasonable  costs  of  a  facility  in
    11  providing  such  services  to  patients  eligible  for  payments made in
    12  accordance with this subdivision. Reasonable costs shall  be  determined
    13  in  a  manner  consistent with that used to determine payment for outpa-
    14  tient critical access hospital services  provided  to  beneficiaries  of
    15  title  XVIII  of the federal social security act. For facilities without
    16  adequate cost experience, such rates shall be based  on  budgeted  costs
    17  subsequently  adjusted  to  one hundred one percent of reasonable actual
    18  costs.

    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08758-05-1