Bill Text: NY A02668 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to payments to rural hospitals designated as critical access hospitals.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A02668 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02668-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2668

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 19, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, SMULLEN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        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 and, subject to an  appropriation
     5  therefor,  on and after April first, two thousand twenty-three, rates of
     6  payment  for  diagnostic  and  treatment  center   services,   emergency
     7  services, general hospital inpatient and outpatient services, ambulatory
     8  surgical  services and referred ambulatory services, provided by a rural
     9  hospital designated as a critical access  hospital  in  accordance  with
    10  title  XVIII  of  the  federal social security act shall be equal to one
    11  hundred one percent of the reasonable costs of a facility  in  providing
    12  such  services to patients eligible for payments made in accordance with
    13  this subdivision. Reasonable costs  shall  be  determined  in  a  manner
    14  consistent  with  that used to determine payment for outpatient critical
    15  access hospital services provided to beneficiaries of title XVIII of the
    16  federal social security act. For facilities without adequate cost  expe-
    17  rience,  such  rates  shall  be  based  on  budgeted  costs subsequently
    18  adjusted to one hundred one percent of reasonable actual costs.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    20  the implementation of the provisions of this act shall be subject to the
    21  appropriation of moneys specifically for the purposes thereof.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01172-01-1