Provides for reimbursement for the provision of offsite primary care services by general hospital outpatient clinics and diagnostic and treatment centers.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7480
IN SENATE
May 15, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to reimbursement for
the provision of offsite primary care services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2807 of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 22 to read as follows:
3 22. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, and
4 subject to the availability of federal financial participation, general
5 hospital outpatient clinics and diagnostic and treatment centers shall
6 be reimbursed for the provision of offsite primary care services to
7 existing patients in need of professional services available at the
8 general hospital outpatient clinic or diagnostic and treatment center,
9 but, due to the individual's medical condition, is unable to receive the
10 services on the premises of the general hospital outpatient clinic or
11 diagnostic and treatment center.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
13 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15125-01-4
