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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         5661--B
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     April 24, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens. LITTLE, HANNON, RITCHIE, VALESKY -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Health  -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the
          Committee on Finance -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and recommitted to said committee -- 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  the
          enhanced safety net hospital program
 
          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 34 to read as follows:
     3    34. Enhanced safety net hospital program. (a) For the purposes of this
     4  subdivision, "enhanced safety net hospital" means a hospital which:
     5    (i) in any of the previous three calendar years, has met the following
     6  criteria:
     7    (A)  not  less  than  fifty  percent of the patients it treats receive
     8  medicaid or are medically uninsured;
     9    (B) not less than  forty  percent  of  its  inpatient  discharges  are
    10  covered by medicaid;
    11    (C) twenty-five percent or less of its discharged patients are commer-
    12  cially insured;
    13    (D)  not  less than three percent of the patients it provides services
    14  to are attributed to the care of uninsured patients; and
    15    (E) provides care to uninsured patients in its emergency room,  hospi-
    16  tal  based  clinics and community based clinics, including the provision
    17  of important community services, such as dental care and prenatal care;
    18    (ii) is a public hospital operated by a county,  municipality,  public
    19  benefit corporation or the state university of New York; or

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11172-05-7
        S. 5661--B                          2
 
     1    (iii)  is  federally designated as a critical access or sole community
     2  hospital.
     3    (b) The commissioner shall adjust medical assistance rates to enhanced
     4  safety  net  hospitals  for the purposes of supporting critically needed
     5  health care services and to ensure the continued maintenance and  opera-
     6  tion of such hospitals.
     7    (c)  Payment  of  the  non-federal  share  of  the  medical assistance
     8  payments made pursuant to this subdivision shall be  the  responsibility
     9  of the state and shall not include a local share. Payments made pursuant
    10  to  this  subdivision may be added to rates of payment or made as aggre-
    11  gate payments to eligible general hospitals.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2018.